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What a worn center strip, chewed shoulders, or one-sided wear actually indicate about your riding, your alignment, and your suspension — and why it's rarely just "the tire wearing out."
Why a top-heavy loaded bike gets genuinely dangerous at low speed, the physics behind it, and the one packing decision that actually affects how the bike handles.
How to actually measure chain stretch instead of eyeballing it, and why a crooked rear wheel wrecks tires and handling faster than a worn chain ever will.
Why "snug" and "correctly torqued" are not the same thing, why aluminum oil pans make this worse than it was on your car, and what to actually do once you've already stripped one.