Cycling Blog

The frame is the most important part of the bike, and not all frames are all the same. You can tell the difference among the frame materials by later period performance and use of a bike. This article will give a brief introduction to frame materials.FRAME MATERIALSHigh tensile steel is cheaper, strong, and sturdy. It is usually found on basic and entry level city bikes and youth bikes. This kind of material is often heavy.The heat treated steel is the strongest and supple with less expensive spend. It is lighter and stronger than high tensile steel and decreases the great...

If your gears are jumping, or they are just not shifting smoothly and as quickly as you think they should, then you probably just need to adjust them. So, here’s article on how to adjust your rear derailleurs, and it should work for Camprgnolo, Shimano, and SRAM gears.So here is how to adjust it. And if you are setting up your derailleur from scratch, then we’ve a video explaining exactly how to do that.Limit screwsBefore we get started with indexing, even if your gears have been set up before, there’s one check you should always make, and that is fort...

Health is important in our lives. As with all competitive sports, there is also a risk for injury in competitive bicycling. The patterns of injury in bicycling are unique since exposure includes high speed, obstacles like cyclists, pedestrian and motor vehicles, and unpredictable road, environment and weather condition. As a result, we should know more about cycling health, including epidemiology of cycling injury, managing common cycling injuries, cycling fatigue and overtraining, and cycling recover interventions.Epidemiology of cycling injuriesBicyclists often avoid many external troubles and injuries with wearing a helmet. There is a risk of both acute traumatic injuries and overuse...

When the body is unable to cool itself down by sweating, several heat-induced illnesses such as heat stress or heat exhaustion and the more severe heat stroke can occur, and can result in death. It is important to schedule strenuous activities early morning or in the evenings when the heat impact is lowest. However, the heat may not impede some fancier’s enthusiasm, so they just ignore the threat of heat wave and starts cycling. If you cycle at a place where there is humidity then make sure that you hydrate yourself and use umbrella or cap to protect from heat....

According to a research done while cycling hard, one might reach his aerobic peak, breathing in a huge quantity of air, almost about 150L/min. Cycling in an extremely polluted environment increases the percentage intake of air pollutants such as soot, CO, CO2, SOx, NOx, PM10, PM2.5, exhaust gases, ozone gas etc. These pollutants cause irritation in lungs, pleural thickening etc. in short almost deteriorating your lungs health to the standards of a smokers lung’s health. They reduce lung functioning, endurance power. In order to protect your lungs, you might need to pay attention to coping with the air pollution.How should...