5 Bike Riding Tips for Beginners

Bike Riding Tips for Beginners

You’re anxious to get out there and start enjoying your bike. Sure, anybody can ride a bike, but learning to pedal efficiently, to stop quickly, and to handle difficult situations takes preparation and practice. Here’s a short introduction to riding techniques that will help you enjoy biking more.   1. Braking Sounds simple, and it … Read more

Best Cheap Bike for Commuting & City Riding

Best Cheap Bike for Commuting & City Riding

Introduction: Competitive and cooperative. This is a topic about which opinions differ greatly. Involving such a personal item as the bicycle, which delivers so much satisfaction (to one comfortable with it), for use in such a critical and stressful environment as city traffic, it is not surprising to find some passionately held views about what bicycle … Read more

How to Ride Your Bike in the Rain

How to Ride Your Bike in the Rain

Regardless of where you live (except for the Sahara, perhaps), if you put in hours on your bike, sooner or later you will have to ride in the rain. Even though I’ve lived most of my life in Southern California-where the rainy season isn’t exactly legendary-I’ve had my fill of rain-riding experience. I’ve raced and … Read more

How to Train for a Century Ride In One Month

How to Train for a Century Ride

Many of us aspire to ride centuries. There is something about riding 100 miles in a day that is appealing–it brands you as a serious cyclist. The trick is to do it without turning your body into a walking mass of sore, stiff muscles for a week afterward. Let’s face it, you won’t ride centuries … Read more

Countersteering Bicycle: Does it Work on A Bicycle & Is It Really Necessary?

How to Train for a Century Ride

Countersteering is a skill every cyclist does regardless of ability, but few are aware they are doing it. Why then, you are probably asking yourself, do I need an explanation about something I already do? Even though you may countersteer without knowing it, by understanding and consciously trying to use it, you will be able … Read more

How Efficient is Bicycle Drafting?

How efficient is bicycle drafting?

Bicycle drafting, also known as slipstreaming, is a technique in which cyclists ride closely behind each other to reduce wind resistance and improve their overall speed and efficiency. This technique has been used for many years in professional road cycling, where teams of cyclists work together to take turns at the front of the pack … Read more