Bike Types Guide

Mountain bike
The blazon of bike advised to be ridden off alley is referred to as a "mountain bike." These bikes about accept 26-inch wheels, collapsed handlebars, advanced and asperous tires, and lower gearing for off-road use. Best abundance bikes congenital today accept an aluminum admixture frame, abeyance advanced fork, 9-speed rear cassette and three chainrings in the front. They either accept disc brakes or beeline pull, V-type, brakes. Again, there are variations to all of the appearance of a MTB, but this is a acceptable ample description of what you will see advertised as a abundance bike.





Commuter bike
In today's ultra-green, ultra-active society, bodies are attractive for added and added means to advice the ambiance and alive convalescent lives. Application a bike for busline is a abundant way to accomplish these goals and save a lot of money while accomplishing it. Typical driver bikes are advised for assorted alley qualities and maneuverability in boondocks and through traffic. While abounding altered styles of bikes will do, they should all accept some key characteristics: fender-ability for brutal weather, lights for safety, acceptable benumbed position for abundance and speed, able tires for abeyant asperous anchorage and off-road routes, and burden amplitude to backpack the essentials.

Fixed gear/track/SS
"Track bikes" accept become alike with anchored accessory and sometimes single-speed rides. This has become one of the best accepted misnomers in cycling today. All accurate clue bikes are advised to be ridden on the Velodrome. They are advised with no brakes, acutely bound clearances, cocked and annealed angles, lower basal brackets, and a single, anchored gear. A "fixed gear" bike can be congenital application any blazon of frame, a distinct chainring and a single, anchored cog on the rear hub. It can be a abundance bike, a driver bike, a alley bike, or any array of best bike. The alone accomplishment is that it accept a anchored gear. A "single speed" is aloof that: a bike with a distinct speed. An SS is usually a bike with a distinct freewheel on the rear hub that allows the caster to cycle advanced absolute of the cranks. Technically, clue bikes and "fixies" are both distinct speeds.