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How much fun is cycling?
What are you looking for? It has a fun rating of 52! It depends on who you are, where you are cycling, the weather, who you’re cycling with. My ride to work is neither fun nor not fun. It’s on bike trails mostly, so it’s not stressful, but they aren’t especially picturesq...Read more -
Can road cycling damage your prostate?
an road cycling damage your prostate? Many men ask us about the possible relationship between cycling and urological pathologies such as benign prostatic hyperplasia (benign growth of the prostate) or erectile dysfunction. Prostate Problems and Cycling The journal “Prostate Cancer Prostati...Read more -
HOW TO REDUCE YOUR BICYCLE WEIGHT?
Lighten up or weight reduction of bicycle is part of the project to riders especially in MTB category. The lighter your bike is, the longer and faster you can ride. In addition, lighter bike is much easier to control and freedom of movement. Here are few ways to trim down your bicycle we...Read more -
How to adjust the speed of the mountain bike in the fastest and most labor-saving way
The front gear is adjusted to 2 and the back is adjusted to 5. The variable-speed bicycle is equipped with different specifications of gear components in the rear hub of the bicycle. When the bicycle is running, the chain is installed on different gears through the speed-changing gear stage, th...Read more -
HOW DO YOUR BIKE BRAKES WORK?
The braking action of a bicycle is giving a friction between the brake pads and the metal surface (disc rotors / rims). Brakes are designed to control your speed, not just to stop the bike. Maximum braking force for each wheel occurs at the point just before the wheel “locks up” (stops rotating)...Read more -
10 ESSENTIAL KITS TO CARRY ON BIKE
Essential kits are important to every cyclists especially long distance riding. Weight from essential kits should not be saved as those kits can save you during the emergency such as bike has broken down due to flat tire, chain issue, components alignment. You can utilize mounting available on y...Read more -
Children’s Bikes – Best Bicycles to Teach a Child to Cycle
Learning how to successfully control bicycle is a skill that many kids want to learn as fast as possible, but such training often starts with simplified bicycle models. The most popular way of learning how to adjust to bicycles starts with small plastic or metal bicycles that have training wheels...Read more -
History and Types of Hybrid Bikes
From the moment first bicycles appeared on the European market in second half of 19th century, people strived not only to create highly specialized models that will be used in specific situations (such as racing, commutes on road, long trips, all-terrain drive, cargo transport), but also models t...Read more -
History and Types of Road Bicycles
The most popular type of bicycles in the world are road bikes, who are intended to be used on flat (almost always paved) roads by everyone who is in need of a simple way to travel on distances of all kinds. Created to be intuitive and easy to control, road bikes are the reason why the bicycles be...Read more -
Types and History of Mountain Bikes
Ever since the first bicycles became good enough for driving on city streets, people started testing them on all possibly types of surfaces. Driving on the mountainous and harsh terrains took a little while before became viable and popular with general population, but that did not stop cyclist to...Read more -
History of Bicycle Helmet and Cyclist Safety
History of bicycle helmets is surprisingly short, covering mostly the last decade of 20th century and with very little attention given to cyclist safety before that point. The reasons why so little people were focused on cyclist safety were numerous, but some of the most important ones was lack o...Read more -
History and Types of Bicycle Baskets and Cargo Accessories
From the moment early bicycles were made to be safe for their drivers, manufacturers started improving not only the performance characteristics of their bicycles but also devising new ways to make them more useful for both general users and government/business employees who were in need of extra ...Read more
