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Nov 08

Urban Bikes

By eko4 Comments

Urban Mountain Biking – Slick City Riding For City Slickers

Executive Summary By David Faulkner

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While mountain biking is typically associated with the cyclists pitting their reflexes, strength, and athletic abilities against some of the world’s most treacherous back country wildernesses, deserts, and canyons, there is a new breed of mountain biker–the city dweller. Urban mountain biking may be the next big thing in sports.

Where To Go Urban Mountain Biking

One place where urban mountain biking fans can develop their skills is at their local skateboarding parks. Almost every city of more than a few thousand people has at least one skateboarding park, and biking in them is a lot more convenient that finding ways to do urban mountain biking on public streets or in parking lots and parking garages.

Skateboarding parks will let urban mountain biking riders perform many different stunts, by tackling the ramps, rails, ledges, and bowls the skateboarders use. Street urban mountain biking is great for those who like to explore and take on whatever challenges they find.

Urban Mountain Bikes

Urban mountain biking is gradually gaining in popularity, but until it has enough support so that every major urban area boasts a number of quality singletracks, urban mountain biking will remain limited to those daredevils willing to perform their stunts on public thoroughfares, in public parks, and while ascending or descending public stairways.

Safe Urban Bike Riding – 7 Tips to Keep You Safe

Executive Summary  By Paul Merry

Urban bike riding can seem intimidating for the new cyclist. With the roads becoming more and more grid-locked, and more new drivers taking to the road than at any time in history, city cycling is becoming more hazardous. There’s no denying that the roads are busier than ever and it can be intimidating for new cyclists, but if you follow a few basic safety rules you should have nothing to worry about.

  1. Check it over. Any defect in your bike, however slight can become a risk on the road. This is just a case of preventive maintenance and checking your bike regularly. Preventive maintenance is crucial to safe urban bike riding.
  2. A lot of bike accidents occur at night or in the early morning because the driver did not see the cyclist. Fit plenty of reflectors to your bike as well as lights. I can never understand people who pay a lot of money for a good bike then put cheap lights on it.
  3. Wear a helmet. There’s two sides to this argument. i’m with the essential side. You can get great styled helmets now at a reasonable price and the days when people stared at a cyclists with a helmet are long gone.
  4. Wear high visibility clothing specifically designed for cycling.
  5. Follow the traffic rules. Stay at the side of the road unless you are making a turn. use bike lanes if they are any. There is a tactic I’ve read about used in some places where cyclists will cycle in the oncoming traffic lane. Follow the rules.
  6. I’m always extra alert around cyclists so I am rarely taken by surprise, but some drivers may not be so alert.
  7. Carry a tool kit.

 As a cyclists, you’re responsible for ensuring you take the necessary steps to ensure your own safety.

Nov 03

Trek Mountain Bikes

By eko1 Comment

Trek Mountain Bikes

Executive Summary By Peter Gitundu

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Walking into a shop to buy a mountain bike can be quite a task, especially when you don’t know a lot on this bike. Like any other bikes out there, Trek mountain bikes are also accompanied by various accessories that are meant to make our rides more enjoyable and also safe. Under this trek brands, there’s a whole line of accessories such as helmets, safety equipment, locks, lights, racks, saddles, trainers, packs, bike maintenance gear, trailers, Trek souvenirs, team wear, and even computers.

The goodness of this bike is not comparable to any other type of mountain bikes out there.

Trek Mountain Bikes 2010

Executive Summary By Mischa Weston-Green

Originally, Trek only produced hand built steel frames, a more costly process but by using steel brazing they could join tubes with no loss of strength to the frame. To validate this, they have an extensive range of superior bikes and frames, specialised for a variety of disciplines, including the most popular trek mountain bikes. Trek bikes still remain as one of the leading companies in producing entry-level, full-featured, front-suspension bikes at reasonable prices and are also favoured within the women’s bike market.

Trek road bikes and mountain bikes are renowned as being adaptable to smaller physiques which tended to suit women without compromising on the speed and agility of the bike. Trek’s 2010 range continues this legacy with a fleet of bikes exceptionally produced to suit a range of cycling needs. So if you are looking for a durable, high spec, agile professional race bike or merely an entry-level, durable, yet highly manoeuvrable bike to get you into cycling, then look no further than Trek bikes.


 

Oct 25

GT Bicyle

By eko3 Comments



GT Bicycle have been in the cycling industry for long time and have had good success by building reliable bikes for performance and for commuting. Their entry into the fixed gear scene seemed natural and have released the new Gutterball 2010 for this year. The trademark GT Triple Triangle frame design is a double butted downtube that has steel reinforced track ends and integrated chain tensioner. Matched with straight blade design alloy forks and 48t x 18t gear set up. 700 wheels are wearing 25c and equipped with brakes on the front and rear. The gray and lime color combination is subtle but appealing and should stand out amongst multi colored bicycles that are common on the road.

My new GT Gutterball Fixed Gear !

by rob

This fixie is sick, but it needs a little customizing to get it to my taste.  The frame is thankfully, basically graphic/decal free in a glossy black finish, but any biker knows the signature GT triple triangle frame design.  It comes stock with decent components, ready for some pretty comfortable city riding.  Ritchey seatpost, WTB saddle, Truvativ cranks, deep-v rims (though they have a silver brake wall, so it kind of messes up the deep-v look), Wellgo pedals and a flip-flop hub are all standard.  It also comes with a 31.8 mm Syncros mountain stem and riser bar that are, imo, way overkill.  I mean these pieces are suitable for some serious all-mountain biking (but they do make the bike more comfortable and easier to control for a newbie to fixed-gear riding), plus they’ve got ugly graphics on them.  A front and rear brake are also standard, I removed the rear and eventually I’ll go nuts and take off the front, too.

The awesome guys at Echo Park Cycles hooked me up by switching the stem out to a more subtle FSA piece, cutting down the handlebars to a more fixed-gear acceptable length and switching out the GT grips for some blue Ourys.  Aaahhh… it’s starting to look like a real, Silverlake fixie.

Soon, I’ll be switching the bars out to some flat shorties, or standard, track drop-bars.  I also want to get black spokes.  And once I’m fully comfortable with no brakes, some Velocitys or other proper deep-v.

Riding fixed is really a different experience and requires new strength and concentration, even to an avid mountain biker like me.  Heading down a steep hill and essentially trying to walk the cranks backwards against the pull of gravity is a new skill. I got my skids down in just a few minutes, though ;)

 

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Oct 24

Bianchi Fixed Gear

By eko10 Comments

Ever Heard of Bianchi Bikes?

Executive Summary By John Jacoby

Yes, there is such a thing called a Bianchi Bike. It’s also a favorite among the fixed gear bike community.

A little about Bianchi Bikes

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Formed by Edoardo Bianchi in Milan, Italy, Bianchi Bikes was founded in 1885 (that’s old!). Known as one of the worlds oldest bicycle companies, Bianchi is known for race bikes, track bikes, leisure bikes, and even fixed gear bikes of the modern age.

Bianchi in the US


In the United States, Bianchi headquarters is located in Hayward, California. Today, Bianchi makes bikes in the following categories: Ducati Corse, Hors Categorie, Born For Performance, Coast 2 Coast, Dama Bianca, D2 Special, Classica, Road Steel, MTB Performance, MTB Leisure, Sport, and Cross-Terrain. Also today, fixed gear fanatics like Bianchi bikes for their history, designs, and prestige (they also look great with Campagnolo parts).

Known from originating in Italy, Bianchi bikes now split their production in Italy and Taiwan. In the U.S., the majority of Bianchi bikes sold are made in Taiwan. Famous Riders

Traditional Bianchi Green

Regardless of the reason, Bianchi Green is part of the tradition and recognizable by Bianchi fans the world around.

So, Do You Want a Bianchi?

If you’re thinking about getting your first road/mountain bike, Bianchi is definitely a brand to check out.


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