How to buy a bicycle
This seems like a good time to discuss the purchase of any size and on a bike. If you already have a bike, and is not interested in another, you can get access to the section on calibration. With more than a bike very well, but especially if your motorcycle is your only form of transport.
Let me first say that the low-end bicycle shop bike is much better in the last 10 years, we can not go wrong. In general, it costs additional money to for $ 700 or $ 800, after which you pay for something that is really not necessary. If the bike shop will have some features of the bike is cool (as in bar button switch), you may have to pay for what you do not need. Features you need your bike is the pedals, brakes and shifters work, work, everything else vestigal. This does not mean that you should buy the cheapest functional bicycle, you should be aware that supplements are not really necessary.
Note that I said, the low-end bike shop * bikes. Do not buy a bike from Target, Toys R Us or other non-bike shop. These wheels cheap, such as hazardous brake particularly bad. They are strong, are idiots, and virtually impossible to correct. Ask yourself a reasonable bike. We spend $ 250 in this case, you will get more than you paid.
I would like to define some terms. Its structure consists of 4 pipes:
Subway: A, Uh, the top of the tube. The rear brake cable, usually along it.
SEAT TUBE: tube that seatpost.
TUBE follows: The other big pipes, diagonal bases. The transition has some racing, drinking, poor, and to change the cable, usually along it.
TUBE HEAD: * not * a cheesy Porn Flick. This is a short tube connected to the tube from the bottom up in the tube. It
Steerer and stem.
Steerer: tube holder (with the front wheel), as well as the stem through the head tube.
Stem: Check the steering tube and handlebar. It fits over the screw all the (usually) about.
SEAT POST: Where is the screw at the top of the
TUBE SEAT. This clip in place, the place is supported by the bolt.
I'm looking for the following bike:
Aluminum wheels: It is not only lighter than steel, they are easier to keep fit, and * much * better braking in wet conditions. They say that the improvement of the wheels is the easiest way to improve the efficiency of your bike with the good.
Hebel NO IDIOT: If a bicycle is a bicycle road curves "drop" handlebars, the brakes on the "hook". Cheap bikes in addition to the main brake lever, there is another lever, which is inward, parallel to the bars. Do not buy a bicycle with them, are extremely dangerous (not good enough, its use in emergency situations), and a sign that the bike is not good. If your bike has these tools, we recommend you delete it.
NO Shifters stem: Again, this is for racing, some bikes, then the keys to the landlord (the handle). The idea is that they are closer to their hands and, therefore, easier to use, the reality is that you are the center of gravity, and turning his body to use. In addition, they are very sensitive to this in his knees while climbing (a very bad image), and an accident in the throat, which is situated near Goring. Insist on a pipe or bar end shifters for road bikes.
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