In an ideal world, your gears would always be perfectly adjusted, your drivetrain would emit a quietly contented purr, and the whole bike would be so well behaved it'd deserve a rosette. Unfortunately ...

Want to clean your car's exhaust tips? You'll need water, car wash soap, gloves, steel wool, metal polish, and a bit of ...

How to fix a creaky frame can be something we ask ourselves quite often as cyclists. Often we look towards changing bearings and adding excess amounts of grease to areas that may not even need it.

Colin Furze used to be a plumber, but really found his calling building wacky contraptions, like a homemade hoverbike, a ...

Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. For a supposedly obsolete ...

Some of the hardest kitchen tasks are cleaning your cooking appliances, as grease, crumbs, and grime quickly build up and bake on to them. And this can happen all too quickly in a toaster oven, where ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient, and relatively low-quality in terms of sound quality — ...

I’ve written at length before about my love of vinyl records and how pleased I am that, in a largely digital world, they are making something of a ‘comeback’. I’ve also talked about how CDs replaced ...

The cassette tape is making a comeback with prices of recent albums sold in the retro format as much as quadrupling in value within weeks of release. And as a new generation chases rare cassettes, ...

Cleaning the air fryer, particularly when it's been neglected for a bit, I reckon, is one of the most tedious tasks. My air fryer gets a workout every few days, whether that's for whipping up chicken, ...