Austin Cycling

Saving our earth from ourselves 

Austin has many entertainments that students could enjoy it. one of them belongs to cycling. The Austin offers many places for students to go cycling. Some students who could ride a bike on a road because Austin has built bike lanes for bikers. Meanwhile, some students could ride bikes on a mountain when they go hiking. That is the reason that there are two major different bikes could be offered for bikers. One is road bike and another one is mountain bike. Besides, there are many bike shops that are nearby campus and they give the students a good price with secondhand bikes.

Rode bikes have a vert light frame that riders could lift it up and carry it with a single hand because it made by aluminium. There are many gears on a back wheel that users can change bike speed. For example, some riders climb a ramp and they will change to a small gear to save more energy and ride easily.  However, when they change to a big gear on a flat road, they could ride in a very fast way. For some safety, I recommend that the students to buy a U shape locker than a chain locker. Some thieves could cut the chain locker easily to steal a bike. In addition, rode bikes have thin tires, so they are no suitable for some rocky road. 

The mountain bikes are more useful on road and mountain road. They have thicker tires to give a good bounce back when wheels hit the ground. In addition, there is a spring in front wheel that could help bikers to deal with rocky roads. Especially, those thicker tires give a good friction and avoid some slipperiness. However, they are very heavy and they have lesser gears than the road bikes.

How to assemble a bike

If you plan to buy a bike from amazon or other websites, you need to prepare some tools to assemble. Otherwise, you could pay for assemble fee that is around sixty dollars. I recommend some tools that are very useful to assemble a bike 

It works as a screw driver that could tie up screws on bikes. It is used on saddles, paddles, and steer. The students can use it to set up a bike by themselves. Sometimes you need to adjust breaks to make them keep a space with the tires from friction to reduce bike speed.

The lubricant uses for lubing bike chains and gears. When you receive your new bikes, the bike chains are not too smooth to work with gears. Using a lubricant is mandatory before ride a new bike to reduce some chain damages. A small tip is that when you lube your bikes, you need to roll your bike paddle to let chains be lubed in a correct way.

It is better that choose an air pump with a meter because different bike tires have different air pressure. There a pressure value that displays on the tires normally. When you pump your bikes, you need to pump the same air pressure value with the tires one. Some people could not ride bikes in a fast way because the tires have less wrong air pressure value. That is very common that mountain bikes have lesser air pressure than rode bikes.