When it comes to sports there are a few important things that cannot and should not be ignored, especially if its a adventure sport like mountain biking. Mountain biking has a specific list of equipment, which are necessary to maintain safety and adventure in the sport.
Get In Gear For Your Mountain Bike
Necessary equipment for the casual bike rider consists of a helmet, and a headlight if there’s a chance of biking at night, and that’s about it. Anything else is gravy.
Essentials Of The Bicycle Wheels
The article refers to the different contents of the bicycle wheels. It tries to explain the role that these important parts play in the smooth running of the wheels.
Criteria For Selecting The Right Mountain Bike
The purchase of a mountain bike can be a tedious and time consuming process. However keeping basic criteria in mind for example, primary criteria like bike sizing and secondary criteria like body type, frame size etc. can go a long way in helping you select the right mountain bike for a smooth and comfortable ride always.
Custom Mountain Bikes For You
Choosing the customize your mountain bike can help you add some personality to your bike. It will give you the opportunity to make your bike the one that you will love for many years to come.
Bike Gear: How Much To Spend
To lots of people, money is know object and they can afford to pay for the top-of-the-line gear they want. Other people need to be more cost conscience and look for bargains.
Why The Ugliness Of Cycling Shorts Is Surpassed Only By Their Importance
Non-riders have a tendency to laugh at the shiny, often gaudy cycling clothes worn by even casual bicyclists, but if they rode even a few miles, they would understand that cycling shorts are second only to a helmet in crucial importance to the rider. Cycling shorts may not be made for fashion, but they provide a critical element of comfort to any kind of bicycling effort.
The first cycling shorts were nearly more work than worth. Made of wool, with a leather chamois stitch…
Ask Yourself These Questions When Shopping For Cycling Jerseys
Runners can run in nearly any clothing as long as they have running shoes, but bicyclists practically require the highly specialized apparel of their sport.Even casual bike riders will benefit hugely in comfort, speed, safety and satisfaction if they don cycling clothing.Your bicycle itself may demand cycling shoes and your first experience with the chafing and pounding of a bike seat may convince you to wear cycling shorts, but you should also, less obviously, ride in a cycl…
Customizing Your Bicycle Rims
Barring a serious crash or the most frequent bike accident of allentering the garage with a bicycle on your car roof rackyour bicycle rims will probably last as long as you can stand riding the same old bike. Usually made of aluminum, rims are lightweight and strong and are hardly ever the source of trouble on a bicycle, even in the most arduous riding conditions.
In fact, most bicycle riders probably never give a single thought to their bicycle rims. The circular band o…
Fitting A Road Bike Frame To Your Needs
For most of us, well-intentioned but casual bike riders who secretly believe we might be Lance Armstrong’s heir if we only had a few more hours a day to spend on our bicycles, buying a new road bike is tantamount to buying a road bike frame. The frame is what we’re thinking of, something new and shiny and colorful, something we suspect even car drivers envy when they see us flash through the snarl of traffic. Truly, a road bike frame is a beautiful thing and part of the reaso…
How To Find The Best Bicycle Frame Looking Beyond Its Paint
Whether you’re shopping for a bike or just admiring them, the first part you notice is probably the bicycle frame. The frame is the heart of a bicycle, as well as its art. Including the basically triangular core structure that supports both seat and handlebars and the extensions that attach to the wheels, the color and the geometry of the bicycle frame not only affects the beauty of the bike, but its strength and speed as well. The pleasure and success you derive from bicycle…
Lowrider Bikes History
Lowriding began as a cultural element of Chicano Americans, part of the street culture of the American barrio where Mexican immigrants maintained a lively urban culture.Lowrider bikes, one of the most splendid and unique products of this culture, are a cross between the Harley and the cruiser bike, decorated with paint and chrome and streamers, found in any all-American hometown parade.
As you might surmise, lowriding bikes hug the ground.The highest points on a lowrider b…