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Since then aluminum alloy frames and other components have become popular due to their light weight, and most mid-range bikes are now principally aluminum alloy of some kind.[where? ] More expensive bikes use carbon fibre due to its significantly lighter weight and profiling ability, allowing designers to make a bike both stiff and compliant by… Continue reading Rivendell Bicycle Works

It is more common to see bicycles with bottle generators, dynamos, lights, fenders, racks and bells in Europe. Bicyclists also have specialized form fitting and high visibility clothing. Bicycle suspensions are used primarily on mountain bicycles, but are also common on hybrid bicycles, as they can help deal with problematic vibration from poor surfaces. Suspension… Continue reading Rivendell Bicycle Works

Like all devices with mechanical moving parts, bicycles do require a certain amount of regular maintenance and replacement of worn parts. A bicycle is relatively simple compared with a car, so some cyclists choose to do at least part of the maintenance themselves. Some components are easy to handle using relatively simple tools, while other… Continue reading Rivendell Bicycle Works

A bicycle wheel remains chained in a bike rack after the rest of the bicycle has been stolen at east campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Many newer or smaller companies only design and market their products; the actual production is done by Asian companies. For example, some 60% of the world’s are… Continue reading Rivendell Bicycle Works

These bikes also have cushy saddles and grips, easy shifting gears, and often suspension forks as well. There are specialized bicycle tools for use both in the shop and on the road. There are also cycling specific multi-tools that combine many of these implements into a single compact device. More specialized bicycle components may require… Continue reading Rivendell Bicycle Works

These were difficult to ride due to their high seat and poor weight distribution. In 1868 Rowley Turner, a sales agent of the Coventry Sewing Machine Company , brought a Michaux cycle to Coventry, England. His uncle, Josiah Turner, and business partner James Starley, used this as a basis for the ‘Coventry Model’ in what… Continue reading Rivendell Bicycle Works