Cycling Guide: Training, Bike Maintenance and Gear Reviews

Running versus cycling for weight loss is a common debate among fitness enthusiasts. Maintaining your bike involves knowing how to fix rubbing disc brakes and pump tires with a Presta valve.

Rear wheel and gear of bicycle in the park

How to Get Rid of Rust on Bicycle Spokes

Humid storage conditions or the passage of time can lead to rust on your bike spokes, particularly if you have an older collector bike with carbon-steel spokes plated with chrome or zinc. More expensive stainless steel spokes should not rust. You can readily clean inexpensive spokes to remove rust.

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How to Size a Cannondale Bicycle

Sizing Cannondales, a range of road bikes known for quality and innovative design, involves standard sizing techniques as well as Cannondale-specific adjustments.

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Cannondale Bikes Vs. Trek Bikes

While Cannondale has more of a Rolls-Royce reputation among certain cyclists, Trek has Tour de France bragging rights, with nine victories on its models. Lance Armstrong, for example, winner of a record seven consecutive Tours, rides a Trek.

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What Is the TPI on Bicycle Tires?

You may look at your bicycle tires as something you are fully happy with as long as they donโ€™t go flat. But important components of their construction enable tires to contact the road safely, hold their shape and protect the inner tube.

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Why Don't Road Bicycles Have Kickstands?

The sight of a kickstand on a road bicycle is bound to annoy a cycling purist. โ€œA racing cyclist would never have any kind of kickstand,โ€ wrote noted cycling author Eugene A. Sloane in โ€œPopular Mechanics,โ€ capturing the snobbery against kickstands that was well under way in the 1970s.

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