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August 16, 2009

Cycling Mountain Bike: How to Choose the Best Bike For You

New and improved models of the cycling mountain bike are continuously being offered by bike manufacturers, who are vying to outdo one another to be the ones offering improved features and better cycling bikes. This means that even an experienced mountain biker will find it rather confusing to identify which among so many different makes and models is the best. Fortunately, there are a lot of mountain bikers who are on the internet and. In addition, there are numerous magazines devoted only to dealing and talking about the cycling mountain bike.

Spoiled For Choice

Whether you read a magazine or go online to find information about the cycling mountain bike, you will be spoiled for choice and much of the information being made available to interested people comes straight from the hearts and minds and of course mouths of seasoned mountain bikers. You can discover how the various bike models respond in outdoor conditions from user feeback, as well as differences and prices.

Valuable information can be found by reading mountain bike reviews, which generally provide a desription of the bike, an analysis of their features, and the parts. This will give you the knowledge to find the best cycling bike for you. What’s more, the newer models have been test ridden by expert mountain bikers and the results of the tests can prove to be very informative and helpful to everyone that is interested in the cycling mountain bike.

The best part about reading a cycling mountain bike review is that they will compare different models and provide useful ratings to help you understand the differences and good and bad points of each bike being compared. This information can prove to be especially helpful to anyone planning on buying a cycling mountain bike.

Visiting forums that discuss cycling, specifically equipment such as mountain bikes, is recommended because you can read reviews and opinions from those who are knoweldgeable about cycling. This way you can develop your interest in the cycling mountain bike, and also make friends with likeminded people that share a common interest in the cycling mountain bike.

The indoor cycling bike is available in numerous colors as well as styles which mean that you will have your hands full trying to decide which particular make and model will suit you the best. Reading a review can prove to be a step in the right direction as you will find out from the experts what to look for and where to buy the right kind of such cycling bike.

June 11, 2009

Cycle 100 Miles In A Day Like Me

One of my goals last year when I started to use my bike a bit more seriously was to cycle 100 miles in a day. It sounds easy after all those guys on the Tour cycle that every day for three weeks and more over mountains and stuff. So I tried for the first time, here in Spain we work in kilometres so it actually sounds further, I had to go 160 kilometres. It was summer and hot so after about the first twenty kilometres, 15 miles, I was a bit dehydrated. I turned around and just made it home before literally collapsing in a heap with jelly legs.

I thought that what I needed was some training so I got online and looked for a training course that suited me. Well what I found was this Training course. It told me what I needed to be doing, what mistakes I needed to avoid and a whole lot more. Three months later I did it. Therefore I highly recommend this course as it comes from experience. It takes you by the hand, or the pedal with step by step instructions of how to get to where you want to be.

If you want something for not so specific a target then check out David’s training programmes here. Loads of information about how to train for cycling from a master cyclist

May 11, 2009

Giro de Italia Has Started

There are three big tours in the cycling calendar and the first of the year is the Giro de Italia. Unusually it started with a Team Time Trial and this has given us an unusual early leader in Mark Cavendish. The Isle of Man rider, generally acknowledged to be the best sprinter in the World was helped by his team obviously and his storming finish crossing the line first meant he took the Maglia Rosa. Surprisingly enough he then lost to Petacchi in the next stage sprint and is now looking for revenge in one of the later sprint stages but Petacchi repeated the stage victory today and has taken the Pink Jersey. Why wasn’t Cavendish involved in the sprint today, a little matter of some smallish mountains near the finish line meant he finished down the field.

The Giro is a three week tour and like all tours each day has something different for various types of riders. Pettachi will lose the jersey as soon as a minor mountain stage comes along and total times are taken into account. The time trialers will come into their own on a couple of stages and the mountain goats will get their way in the mountains although Van De Velde won’t be one of them this year after falling and breaking two ribs today. As for Lance Armstrong, he twittered that he is feeling good yesterday after the first time trial but would it be too much to expect him to come back and start winning at his age?

May 6, 2009

Quite Stunning Trick Cycling

I thought you might like this video. It is five minutes long and it is definitely not a road bike but the level of skill to do this must have meant years of bumps, bruises and broken bones.

Specialized bikes like this require a good bit of money to buy, and repair amongst other things but if they help you do tricks like this then they are worth it (That and more than a modicum of skill of course)

April 26, 2009

Cycling in Spain - When the Weekend Comes

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Saturdays are a rest day in general for the Spanish so they spend all of the day racing around dressed in Lycra, helmets on, in a colourful display of resistance designed to get the legs pumping and the countryside seen.

I took a few videos yesterday and placed them into a longer video about Torres Torres, a small town outside Valencia. You can see the video at the link. It has more stuff about living in Spain and buying property but you get an idea about what a Saturday ride means for the average Spanish person there.

Road bikes are the main use in this type of cycling although there are many who go off road with mountain bikes or hybrids as the area around lends itself to some spectacular scenery and varied terrain

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