Fixie bikes help a lot with strength, especially when it comes to hills. Not only can you no longer adjust to a lower gear when going uphill, meaning you might need to put in more effort, but even on downhills, the lack of ability to freewheel means you will constantly be pedalling...
Another specialized category is the gear bikes that lack freewheel mechanisms and hence also go by as fixed-wheel bikes. The absence of freewheels warrants constant pedaling to keep the bike moving. The natural habitat of such bikes is velodrome but you can also use them to develop fast and...
Drinking and working through dark Seattle winters as a messenger, the White Industries freewheel was the last thing on my mind. I finally stopped riding it after a couple years when the teeth were shark-finned enough to drop the chain just dropping off curbs. I’ve had it hanging on the...
If your habits are as bad as mine, the first thing you do in the morning is look at your phone and make coffee or tea. I wake up, quickly silence the alarm clock buzzing on my phone, then start clearing out any notifications or browsing social media. Old habits die hard. So, what...
Thats just not rock 'n' roll.So why have we gone down the road of corporate sponsorship and what does it mean for music in this region? Birmingham has always had a lot of musical talent, but up until the turn of the millenium Birmingham was lacking enough large-scale venues with the ...
Massive amounts of low-cadence, easy-to-control grunt augments this further. The Bosch doesn’t need hard pedal strokes to provide assistance, where light pushes of the pedals turn the back wheel slowly but with plenty of torque. It behaves in the same way a low-range gearbox does on an...
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How does your indoor bike compare to your outdoor one? Now that Zwift has been around for 9+ years, many Zwifters have a dedicated indoor bike as well as outdoor bike(s). Often the gearing on the two bikes doesn’t match, (especially if you use an old ride for your Zwift bike li...
I mean, I think it’s very interesting in the realm of art in particular, isn’t it, where deception is, in a way, part of the artistic process. You know, that clearly doesn’t apply. You really don’t want your kind of bank to go in for deception in a similar way. So there ...