Bicycle Articles
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- Cycling Your Way To Fitness - Stationary Exercise Bikes - Still A Top Choice For Overall Fitness: Stationary Exercise Bikes - Still A Top Choice For Overall Fitness
In all the craze over new fangled fitness equipment, the exercise bike often gets overlooked. Stationary exercise bikes have been around...
- Information On Cycling Shoes: Why Bother About Cycling Shoes
Picking the right bicycle gear is as important as picking the right bicycle itself. A lot of energy is required by the biker to complete a bike journey and so it is important...
- Bicycle Tour FAQs: Since the invention of the bicycle, people have used this environment-friendly vehicle, as a thrifty way to travel and get in touch with the culture of the land. Today most bicycle tours are package offerings,...
- Spin Faster for Greater Efficiency: All bicyclists learn that they tire earlier when they push very hard on the pedals. Spinning the pedals faster with less pressure saves energy. However, if you pedal too fast you lose coordination, which...
- Car Bike Racks: To enjoy biking, one has to think of transporting the bicycle on the vehicle using some sort of bike rack. Bike racks come in many varieties and many prices, depending on the application. It depends on...
- Bicycle Shipping - Easy and Affordable: My friend Ann takes her bike wherever she goes, even if the trip isn't about biking - like her Christmas trip to Arizona to visit her parents. We discussed the advantages and compared some expenses.
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- Cadence: Pedal Faster to Ride Better: All cyclists should learn to pedal at a fast cadence, whether you are an experienced racer or a novice recreational rider. Muscle fatigue and damage are caused by excess pressure on the pedals, not by...
- Bicycle Chain Maintenance: A bicycle chain is known for failing at the worst time. This problem of a jumpy or jerky chain can be removed entirely, though, if you simply do some chain maintenance on it regularly. This means that...
- Are You Ready for Your First Century Ride?: Youve been training all summer for the long rides and worked yourself up from 25 miles to 35, then 45, then 60 and finally, just recently, you pedaled for 70 long ones. Congratulations!
Your ultimate...
- Customizing Your Road Bike: Customizing your road bike is a great way to show your personality and imagination. As you customize your road bike, you will find that you are using it as an extension of your personality.
You will...
- Cross Country Touring: A bike is a wonderfully elegant creation-true technological genius.
A well-made bike can take you thousands of trouble-free miles. When it does break down, even the most mechanically challenged can repair...
- Tandem Bicycles: Bicycles are a two-wheeled means of transportation. Having been here since the nineteenth century, bicycles are still a chief mode of transportation today. Bicycles are simple and easy to handle, inexpensive,...
- Quick Tune-Up For Spring Bicycle Riding: For those of us who put our bikes away for the winter, the time has come to dust them off and get ready to ride. When bringing a bike out of storage, a mini tune-up is necessary. Pay special attention...
- Tips On Avoiding Knee Pain When Cycling: For many cycling enthusiasts, knee pain is something that they regularly experience. This pain is caused by iliotibial tissue, and in medical jargon is usually referred to as IT band syndrome. This tissue...
- Bicycle History: Although one of Leonardo Da Vinci's students made plans for a bicycle in the 1490's, it was never built because it was considered a ridiculous way to get around. The first bicycle was invented in 1816...
- A Cyclist's Diary: On the coach travelling endlessly through a hot, green French countryside, two women and twenty three men on a 26 hour journey to Haute Alpes. Tired and fidgety after a four hour sleep in a cramped ferry...
- Carbohydrate Loading Slows Sprint Performance: For more than fifty years, athletes in sports requiring endurance have used a training technique called carbohydrate loading. A recent study from South Africa shows that this technique slows sprint performance...
- Bonking: Don't Run Out of Blood Sugar: If you watch a major bicycle race on TV, you have to be impressed by how the riders can eat enough to sustain them through races that require more than five hours of near maximum effort. If they do not...
- Cycling, Wedges and Biomechaincs: For years cyclists have been looking at different ways of maximising their power output on their bike and reducing their risk of injury. Different ways they have tried includes changing their bike set...
- Great Tips For Cycling in the Heat: As I write this article, we are in the midst of a July heat wave in Denver. I rode 57.79 miles this morning when it was in the low 70s. Riding west into the southern foothills around 7 am in Deer Creek...
- Bicycle Commuter's Guide: Many people realize that riding a bicycle instead of driving a car saves the noise, stinks, and congestion of the infernal combustion engine. Do you know the personal benefits of cycle commuting? Cycling...
- Why Would Someone Ride Their Bike Across America?: Recently I had mentioned is someone that I was going to ride my bicycle across America. Now I am not a professional cyclist by any means actually I am a runner from my college days. They asked me if I...
- Biking Across America in Winter Time: For those that planned to bike across the United States of America in the wintertime I have some advice for you. You should take a route of lower latitude and that is to say below Northern California,...
- Recumbent Bicycles: Recumbent bicycles are special type bicycles in which the rider is seated as in a chair. The back of the rider is supported and the rider's legs are extended forward to pedals. They give a very relaxed...