Saturday, March 19, 2011

Tips a Choosing Bike


First we must think about what the bike that suits your needs and desires, as many models and types are available. There are 2 classes included herein, the MTB and Road Bike.

Mountain Bike (MTB)

a. Competitive XC

   These bikes are usually quite mild for this type of MTB, a lightweight bike for cross country (offroad). Competitive XC commonly used for off-road terrain that is not too down, very suitable for who like speed and strength to crawl offroads field.

b. XC Trail

  More types of bikes made ​​for a fairly extreme offroad terrain, apparently derived a rather sharp with a lot of corners, front and rear suspension are usually more tender than the Competitive XC, front and rear suspension are usually also can be set hard and soft scales.

c. Freeride/ Downhill

  It's a bike that we see in the world championship downhill, the bike is very heavy for this type of MTB. This bike frame is very heavy because of the extreme downhill requires high stability. This type of suspension bikes have front Trafel (long suspension) longer compared to other MTB bikes, and certainly the rear suspension is mandatory on this type of bike.

Road Bike

a. Competitive Road

  Bicycle racing is a competition in the allocation for racing, with a very light weight total weight of the bike can reach 5kg, For those who love cycling healthy asphalt pavement is one option.

b. Endurance Road

 Racing bicycle with a frame that is more resistant to such road is not smooth paving blocks, a bike with this type suitable for the type of road like that is not only smooth but asphalt roads is bad. In addition to the speed of light suitable for fans, this kind of decent bike make the choice to ride on the road non-asphalt.

c. Time Trial

  IIndeed this is a racing bike, very lightweight with aero dynamic designed carefully to the wind. Bicycle racing is much in use for Time Trial competitions / Thriatlon a demanding pace.


For fields in Indonesia, the most suitable bike in my opinion is the Endurance Road to class and XC Trail Road Bikenya MTBnya to class. But it all depends on your choice.

So please specify your choice, which are suitable and fit your taste.

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