Snapguide is a site that hosts and provides production tools for nifty little how-to guides. The folks behind it are running a contest to win $925-worth (a bit over £500) of prizes from accessory makers Portland Design Works and Walnut Studiolo.

The guides Snapguide hosts are simple: one image at a time, with some text to tell you what to do. But for a lot of cycling repair and maintenance jobs, that’s all you need; it’s a damn sight more straightforward than playing a video backwards and forwards and getting your keyboard covered in grease in the process.

The Snapguide folks are looking for more guides to cycling stuff, especially things that qualify as ‘hacks’ like building your own bike storage or bodging a chain repair when you’re out in the world.

You can embed Snapguides in your own site or blog too, which is handy, not least because it allows us to show you what a Snapguide looks like. We could present one on how to change a chain or what to put in your emergency tool kit, but as there’s more to live than cycling and to help get you through hump day afternoon with thoughts of cake, here’s how to make Nutella banana bread:

Check out How to Bake Nutella Banana Bread by Wright Kitchen on Snapguide.

To create your own how-to and enter it in the competition, get over to Snapguide’s competition page.

 

The contest is open now and runs until June 4.