How to choose your road bike? Well the first question is how much do you want to spend and how much cycling will you do? The answer to the first question is a difficult one, many people when they are younger they want to ride there bike all day and what to be the next winner of the Tour de France, but they can not afford to spend much on there bike. If they get fit and win some races and get in a good team they will be given a top class bike, but what usually happens is they have to give up and work, have a family etc. When they are older and have more money they can afford the bike of there dreams. As to how much cycling you do, that depends on whether you can justify having the best bike around and only doing a short ride on Sunday morning. Remember you get what you pay for.
Basic Level Bikes.
If you go to the larger sports stores or bike shops they will have complete bikes for sale, probably a alloy frame with Shimano Tiagra or Campagnolo Mirage or a mixture of cheaper components, this bike will be built to a price, will ride fairly well, wont be very light and is a good place to start. To get some thing better, start with a nice alloy frame and if you can afford it, carbon forks, then with what money you have left chose your group-set of either Shimano or Campagnolo and then you can pick your saddle, handlebars, wheel rims and tires, this is all fun, but if you are working to a budget, it can be tricky.
Mid Level, Touring and Possibly Racing.
In this range of bikes you can buy them as a complete cycle, in the cycle shop, sports store or even in the specialist magazines or on the web. It is more fun to choose the components for your frame and how much you want to spend. At this level you would probably be looking at Shimano 105 or Campagnolo Centaur road bike parts and you could possibly buy some built up wheels from Shimano, Campagnolo or Mavic, but first start with the frame, there are many frames out there to choose from, get on the net and look for what you want, it will probably be alloy again, with carbon forks. Alloy seat pin, handle bars and stem and a comfortable saddle.
Top Level Bike For Racing and Pleasure.
Now it gets more difficult, your components would be Campagnolo Chorus or Shimano Ultegra, unless you can afford the top components of both manufacturers. Wheels again would be possibly Mavic, Shimano or Campagnolo, deep carbon rims look Great and have a wonderful ride, but will probably be too expensive, best if you stick to alloy rims for high pressure tires as tubulars, even though they ride wonderfully, will be expensive and a lot of trouble. Handle bars, stem and seat pin could be alloy or carbon, if you have the money. The frame is the heart of your bike and you will want a good one, at this price range alloy is going to be the first choice with carbon forks and possibly a carbon rear triangle. If you look around you might manage to find an all carbon frame at this price, Giant make a very well priced carbon frame in a compact, sloping design, there are others but you will have to spend a lot more money.
The Top of The Shopping List.
When’re looking at a lot of money here if you want to buy a professional road bike. The frame will be all carbon or titanium with carbon forks and maybe a carbon rear triangle or alloy main tubes with carbon front or rear end. The nicest ones on the market at the moment, in my opinion, are Colnago, De Rosa, Pinarello, Battaglin, Time, Scott, Cervelo and many more, all are available in different colours, geometries and sizes, check out there web sites for information and try to make your choice, it’s a difficult job. This is a professional road bike so it will have to have the best components, Shimano Dura.Ace or Campagnolo Record are your only choice at this level. Same with the wheels, Dura-Ace or Campagnolo Bora, these can be for high pressure clincher tires or tubulars, tubulars are more trouble but do ride well, but clincher tires are very nearly as nice and much more practical. Handle bars, stem and seat pin will be carbon and your saddle will have a carbon base with a leather cover and sometimes with gel for a little extra comfort.
The Best Bike You Can Afford.
You do only get what you pay for, so get the best bike you can afford, look around the magazines and the web sites and don’t forget your local bike shop until you get that little jewel, but be careful not to make your partner jealous!
About The Author:
Andrew Caxton is the webmaster as well as a successful author of http://www.bike-cycling-reviews.com. Mr.Caxton adds very often reviews related to road bikes and mountain bikes
Latest Fishing Technology
And Fishing Gears
by: Dylan Miles
Fish finder
Imagine you’re sitting out there on your fishing boat, you whip out a
cool gadget you just bought from the Internet and after a couple of beeps,
the device tells you that there is a school of fish some 3 meters or so
away from you. Now, how cool can that be? It’s almost like an ultrasound
scan of the sea or the lake that tells you exactly where the fish are.
But of course, this is not news because many different companies have
developed their own ultrasound-like fish finding gadgets a long time ago.
But Maptech’s new i3 module is the first of its kind. It’s the first ever
touch screen, hi-resolution 3D Fishfinger. Yes, you can literally see the
kind of fish that’s swimming around under your boat, in super clear images
and in real time.
The i3 Touch Screen command on the fishing gadget can help you navigate
the floor of the lake or sea with a radar, combine it with satellite
communication and a weather report too.
This is an absolutely MUST for those who seriously looking into
easy-fishing.
Monofilament fishing lines
There’s absolutely nothing worse than to have a fish on the hook and
have the line snap! Well, no more snapping of fishing line with the latest
development in monofilament fishing lines. Monofilament fishing lines come
in a wide range of colors, sizes, thickness and strength. Although it’s
stronger than some of the other more conventional fishing lines, they are
cheaper. Monofilament fishing lines comes with special coating that keeps
them from snapping easily. The only thing is that they don’t stretch as
good as other types of fishing lines but they make up for it with their
bulk and strength.
Monofilament fishing lines are also quite transparent over the water
and hold knots pretty well.
Fashion is always cool too
Sometimes, cool has nothing to do with technology. It’s got more to do
with the brain and ‘creativity’. If your husband, brother, or father is a
fishing fanatic, you can always get them fashionable fishing gear with
extra pockets to place their scissors and hooks. Perhaps the water-proof
raincoat with fluorescent streak for night fishing, perhaps. And how about
the water-proof watch? That’ll work perfectly. And how about an X-LOOP
flash mirror polarized lens? Sunglasses for baking in the sun and raincoat
for fishing in the rain are exceptionally cool gears we cannot ignore.
Let’s take the sunglasses as an example. The sunglasses not only remove
the glare and improve the quality of what you see with your naked eye, you
see the same scene in deep colors and contrasts. These sunglasses are
developed specifically for fishing enthusiasts.
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