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An E-Bike Training Program for Older Adults

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The company currently sells seventeen different models, each made with a particular type of off-road rider in mind. There are bikes optimized for perfect handling on long, technical descents, bikes made for people who mainly tackle the rolling hills of a local singletrack loop, bikes that are super efficient on the way up rocky climbs, and even gravel bikes that are pretty efficient on paved roads. To figure out which will work best for you, take the company’s bike finder quiz. All the bikes are priced within a pretty similar range, with the exception of the battery-powered electric options.The Best Affordable Bike Brand: StateState Bicycle Co.Core-LineMost people looking to buy a bike want something with multiple gears so that they can shift to better tackle changes in street gradient. There’s nothing worse than being in a hard, powerful gear when you’re trying to climb a steep hill. Others choose to ride bikes with a single set of gears for the sake of simplicity (and savings) or the sheer flex. If you’re a true novice cyclist, I wouldn’t recommend a single-speed bike, since it’ll make keeping up with your friends or any small hill a real challenge. But if you’re interested in trying one out, consider one from the popular, affordable brand State Bicycle Co. Its entry-level Core Line bikes are well made and the company’s customer support teams are responsive. If you have any issues, they should be able to take care of you.The Best Fixed-Gear Bike Brand: AffinityAffinityMetropolitan Track Frame Set Crimson SkyFixed Gear bikes were massively popular in the early 2010s, mostly associated with gauge-wearing hipsters in cities like Portland and New York. Like single-speed bikes, they offer no other options for gears you can change into. But fixed-gear bikes do not have a freewheel, a component that allows your bike’s rear wheel to keep spinning if you stop pedaling. If you find yourself going downhill on a fixed gear bike, then, you have to make sure you keep pedaling as fast as your bike will want you to. Stopping on a fixed-gear bike can also be a challenge, especially since many fixed-gear bikes don’t come with brakes.This dynamic forces you into a constant and active conversation with your bike, which fixie enthusiasts usually say makes all other kinds of bike riding feel kind of mindless. Sheldon Brown, a bike mechanic and author of “Fixed Gear Bicycles for the Road,” referred to the feeling of riding a fixie as an “almost mystical connection.”The team at Affinity Cycles specializes in producing extremely handsome frames with geometry designed for riding a fixed gear. You’ll have to buy almost all the other components you’ll need—including handlebars, wheels, pedals, a crankset, and a chain—separately, but that’s part of the fun. A fixie should be as unique as its rider, and your local bike shop should have plenty of gear that speaks to your specific aesthetic sensibility.The Best Old-School Bike Brand: RivendellRVNDL BCYCL WRKSRoaduno Complete Bike 2024Most bicycle companies chase the future, updating their entire product line each year with bikes that have the latest greatest in frame geometry and aerodynamics, but also in their components. Rivendell is quite different. The company’s bikes are unabashedly retro, employing the kinds of brakes and shifting mechanisms you would have seen on new bikes produced in the 80s and 90s. That’s because, as Rivendell founder Grant Petersen put it in a recent New Yorker profile, these components, with practice, work just as well as more modern versions, while also being much simpler to live with. If you buy a Rivendell, for instance, you’ll never have to worry whether your derailleur is charged.FAQHow much should I expect to pay for a new bike?AccordionItemContainerButtonYou are not mistaken: New bikes have gotten a lot more expensive. “To get a bike that used to cost you like $500, you now usually have to pay at least $700,” says Graven-Milne. A lot of this acceleration happened during the pandemic, when demand for bikes spiked just as the production of bikes and bike components all but completely halted. Four years out, the demand has softened, so some people expect prices to cool.AccordionItemContainerButtonNikahim says to start by trying to think about the type of cyclist you want to become. Are you imagining yourself riding upright and comfortable on city streets as you navigate morning traffic? Do you think you’ll want to kit yourself out in spandex and rip it as fast as possible around the paved loops of your local park? Or, can you see yourself taking your bike out into the woods and rolling over more varied terrain, like gravel or dirt?Once you have a sense of this, look for a great local bike shop, says Weiss, “If you’re someone who is not a mechanic, who is just getting started in cycling, the most important thing [to do] is go to a shop where people are going to help you and listen to you and give you support.”The people at your local bike shop, by nature of also being local cyclists, are going to understand the needs for cyclists in that area, says Rome. Whether that’s related to weather or terrain, they can help direct you to a bike that can handle it. “I think there’s a lot of value in the local bike shop versus what most people do now, which is just to go down a rabbit hole of internet advice that doesn’t necessarily get to the right answer very quickly,” he says. Any good shop will allow you to try out the new bikes they sell, which can help you identify what details about a bike are important to you.What about direct-to-consumer bike brands?AccordionItemContainerButton“In cycling, brands don’t equal manufacturer…You’re often buying something from a brand, but it’s made by someone else,” Rome explains. He says there are only a few dozen manufacturers of bikes throughout the world that produce bikes for hundreds and hundreds of different brands. There’s been even more manufacturer centralization since the pandemic, says Graven-Milne. "The quality of a certain bike isn’t always correlated to the brand name attached to it,” she says, though there are some smaller DTC brands that have a sterling reputation.A lot of those smaller DTC brands sell directly to the consumer at a slightly lower price than you’d get at a bike shop. The only problem: You often have to assemble the bike yourself at home. If you’re an experienced rider, this might not be an issue. But Graven-Milne says lots of people come into their shop with bike that they assembled themselves that are now having issues that could have been avoided with property assembly. “People are sometimes like, ‘If you can assemble Ikea furniture, you can build a bike out of a box. It’s the same thing.’ But I do not ride my Ikea couch down the street at 25 miles per hour.”If you do want to buy a bike from one of these companies, Graven-Milne says to get it built at your local bike shop. “Bike shops love it when you bring them a bike-in-a-box,” she says. “You can probably even just ship it directly to the shop, as long as you let them know in advance.”What about bikes from big box stores?AccordionItemContainerButtonThe experts we spoke to for this story cautioned against buying any bikes from big box stores and online warehouses, especially in the below $500 price range. These kinds of bikes, which Graven-Milne says mechanics often refer to as “bicycle-shaped objects,” often arrive with signs they were welded together poorly and fitted with counterfeit components. “It will look like a bicycle to someone that doesn’t really know about bicycles. But it’s more like if you were trying to buy a car and you ended up with a golf cart.” Source link

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The company currently sells seventeen different models, each made with a particular type of off-road rider in mind. There are bikes optimized for perfect handling on long, technical descents, bikes made for people who mainly tackle the rolling hills of a local singletrack loop, bikes that are super efficient on the way up rocky climbs, and even gravel bikes that are pretty efficient on paved roads. To figure out which will work best for you, take the company’s bike finder quiz. All the bikes are priced within a pretty similar range, with the exception of the battery-powered electric options.The Best Affordable Bike Brand: StateState Bicycle Co.Core-LineMost people looking to buy a bike want something with multiple gears so that they can shift to better tackle changes in street gradient. There’s nothing worse than being in a hard, powerful gear when you’re trying to climb a steep hill. Others choose to ride bikes with a single set of gears for the sake of simplicity (and savings) or the sheer flex. If you’re a true novice cyclist, I wouldn’t recommend a single-speed bike, since it’ll make keeping up with your friends or any small hill a real challenge. But if you’re interested in trying one out, consider one from the popular, affordable brand State Bicycle Co. Its entry-level Core Line bikes are well made and the company’s customer support teams are responsive. If you have any issues, they should be able to take care of you.The Best Fixed-Gear Bike Brand: AffinityAffinityMetropolitan Track Frame Set Crimson SkyFixed Gear bikes were massively popular in the early 2010s, mostly associated with gauge-wearing hipsters in cities like Portland and New York. Like single-speed bikes, they offer no other options for gears you can change into. But fixed-gear bikes do not have a freewheel, a component that allows your bike’s rear wheel to keep spinning if you stop pedaling. If you find yourself going downhill on a fixed gear bike, then, you have to make sure you keep pedaling as fast as your bike will want you to. Stopping on a fixed-gear bike can also be a challenge, especially since many fixed-gear bikes don’t come with brakes.This dynamic forces you into a constant and active conversation with your bike, which fixie enthusiasts usually say makes all other kinds of bike riding feel kind of mindless. Sheldon Brown, a bike mechanic and author of “Fixed Gear Bicycles for the Road,” referred to the feeling of riding a fixie as an “almost mystical connection.”The team at Affinity Cycles specializes in producing extremely handsome frames with geometry designed for riding a fixed gear. You’ll have to buy almost all the other components you’ll need—including handlebars, wheels, pedals, a crankset, and a chain—separately, but that’s part of the fun. A fixie should be as unique as its rider, and your local bike shop should have plenty of gear that speaks to your specific aesthetic sensibility.The Best Old-School Bike Brand: RivendellRVNDL BCYCL WRKSRoaduno Complete Bike 2024Most bicycle companies chase the future, updating their entire product line each year with bikes that have the latest greatest in frame geometry and aerodynamics, but also in their components. Rivendell is quite different. The company’s bikes are unabashedly retro, employing the kinds of brakes and shifting mechanisms you would have seen on new bikes produced in the 80s and 90s. That’s because, as Rivendell founder Grant Petersen put it in a recent New Yorker profile, these components, with practice, work just as well as more modern versions, while also being much simpler to live with. If you buy a Rivendell, for instance, you’ll never have to worry whether your derailleur is charged.FAQHow much should I expect to pay for a new bike?AccordionItemContainerButtonYou are not mistaken: New bikes have gotten a lot more expensive. “To get a bike that used to cost you like $500, you now usually have to pay at least $700,” says Graven-Milne. A lot of this acceleration happened during the pandemic, when demand for bikes spiked just as the production of bikes and bike components all but completely halted. Four years out, the demand has softened, so some people expect prices to cool.AccordionItemContainerButtonNikahim says to start by trying to think about the type of cyclist you want to become. Are you imagining yourself riding upright and comfortable on city streets as you navigate morning traffic? Do you think you’ll want to kit yourself out in spandex and rip it as fast as possible around the paved loops of your local park? Or, can you see yourself taking your bike out into the woods and rolling over more varied terrain, like gravel or dirt?Once you have a sense of this, look for a great local bike shop, says Weiss, “If you’re someone who is not a mechanic, who is just getting started in cycling, the most important thing [to do] is go to a shop where people are going to help you and listen to you and give you support.”The people at your local bike shop, by nature of also being local cyclists, are going to understand the needs for cyclists in that area, says Rome. Whether that’s related to weather or terrain, they can help direct you to a bike that can handle it. “I think there’s a lot of value in the local bike shop versus what most people do now, which is just to go down a rabbit hole of internet advice that doesn’t necessarily get to the right answer very quickly,” he says. Any good shop will allow you to try out the new bikes they sell, which can help you identify what details about a bike are important to you.What about direct-to-consumer bike brands?AccordionItemContainerButton“In cycling, brands don’t equal manufacturer…You’re often buying something from a brand, but it’s made by someone else,” Rome explains. He says there are only a few dozen manufacturers of bikes throughout the world that produce bikes for hundreds and hundreds of different brands. There’s been even more manufacturer centralization since the pandemic, says Graven-Milne. "The quality of a certain bike isn’t always correlated to the brand name attached to it,” she says, though there are some smaller DTC brands that have a sterling reputation.A lot of those smaller DTC brands sell directly to the consumer at a slightly lower price than you’d get at a bike shop. The only problem: You often have to assemble the bike yourself at home. If you’re an experienced rider, this might not be an issue. But Graven-Milne says lots of people come into their shop with bike that they assembled themselves that are now having issues that could have been avoided with property assembly. “People are sometimes like, ‘If you can assemble Ikea furniture, you can build a bike out of a box. It’s the same thing.’ But I do not ride my Ikea couch down the street at 25 miles per hour.”If you do want to buy a bike from one of these companies, Graven-Milne says to get it built at your local bike shop. “Bike shops love it when you bring them a bike-in-a-box,” she says. “You can probably even just ship it directly to the shop, as long as you let them know in advance.”What about bikes from big box stores?AccordionItemContainerButtonThe experts we spoke to for this story cautioned against buying any bikes from big box stores and online warehouses, especially in the below $500 price range. These kinds of bikes, which Graven-Milne says mechanics often refer to as “bicycle-shaped objects,” often arrive with signs they were welded together poorly and fitted with counterfeit components. “It will look like a bicycle to someone that doesn’t really know about bicycles. But it’s more like if you were trying to buy a car and you ended up with a golf cart.” Source link

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The company currently sells seventeen different models, each made with a particular type of off-road rider in mind. There are bikes optimized for perfect handling on long, technical descents, bikes made for people who mainly tackle the rolling hills of a local singletrack loop, bikes that are super efficient on the way up rocky climbs, and even gravel bikes that are pretty efficient on paved roads. To figure out which will work best for you, take the company’s bike finder quiz. All the bikes are priced within a pretty similar range, with the exception of the battery-powered electric options.The Best Affordable Bike Brand: StateState Bicycle Co.Core-LineMost people looking to buy a bike want something with multiple gears so that they can shift to better tackle changes in street gradient. There’s nothing worse than being in a hard, powerful gear when you’re trying to climb a steep hill. Others choose to ride bikes with a single set of gears for the sake of simplicity (and savings) or the sheer flex. If you’re a true novice cyclist, I wouldn’t recommend a single-speed bike, since it’ll make keeping up with your friends or any small hill a real challenge. But if you’re interested in trying one out, consider one from the popular, affordable brand State Bicycle Co. Its entry-level Core Line bikes are well made and the company’s customer support teams are responsive. If you have any issues, they should be able to take care of you.The Best Fixed-Gear Bike Brand: AffinityAffinityMetropolitan Track Frame Set Crimson SkyFixed Gear bikes were massively popular in the early 2010s, mostly associated with gauge-wearing hipsters in cities like Portland and New York. Like single-speed bikes, they offer no other options for gears you can change into. But fixed-gear bikes do not have a freewheel, a component that allows your bike’s rear wheel to keep spinning if you stop pedaling. If you find yourself going downhill on a fixed gear bike, then, you have to make sure you keep pedaling as fast as your bike will want you to. Stopping on a fixed-gear bike can also be a challenge, especially since many fixed-gear bikes don’t come with brakes.This dynamic forces you into a constant and active conversation with your bike, which fixie enthusiasts usually say makes all other kinds of bike riding feel kind of mindless. Sheldon Brown, a bike mechanic and author of “Fixed Gear Bicycles for the Road,” referred to the feeling of riding a fixie as an “almost mystical connection.”The team at Affinity Cycles specializes in producing extremely handsome frames with geometry designed for riding a fixed gear. You’ll have to buy almost all the other components you’ll need—including handlebars, wheels, pedals, a crankset, and a chain—separately, but that’s part of the fun. A fixie should be as unique as its rider, and your local bike shop should have plenty of gear that speaks to your specific aesthetic sensibility.The Best Old-School Bike Brand: RivendellRVNDL BCYCL WRKSRoaduno Complete Bike 2024Most bicycle companies chase the future, updating their entire product line each year with bikes that have the latest greatest in frame geometry and aerodynamics, but also in their components. Rivendell is quite different. The company’s bikes are unabashedly retro, employing the kinds of brakes and shifting mechanisms you would have seen on new bikes produced in the 80s and 90s. That’s because, as Rivendell founder Grant Petersen put it in a recent New Yorker profile, these components, with practice, work just as well as more modern versions, while also being much simpler to live with. If you buy a Rivendell, for instance, you’ll never have to worry whether your derailleur is charged.FAQHow much should I expect to pay for a new bike?AccordionItemContainerButtonYou are not mistaken: New bikes have gotten a lot more expensive. “To get a bike that used to cost you like $500, you now usually have to pay at least $700,” says Graven-Milne. A lot of this acceleration happened during the pandemic, when demand for bikes spiked just as the production of bikes and bike components all but completely halted. Four years out, the demand has softened, so some people expect prices to cool.AccordionItemContainerButtonNikahim says to start by trying to think about the type of cyclist you want to become. Are you imagining yourself riding upright and comfortable on city streets as you navigate morning traffic? Do you think you’ll want to kit yourself out in spandex and rip it as fast as possible around the paved loops of your local park? Or, can you see yourself taking your bike out into the woods and rolling over more varied terrain, like gravel or dirt?Once you have a sense of this, look for a great local bike shop, says Weiss, “If you’re someone who is not a mechanic, who is just getting started in cycling, the most important thing [to do] is go to a shop where people are going to help you and listen to you and give you support.”The people at your local bike shop, by nature of also being local cyclists, are going to understand the needs for cyclists in that area, says Rome. Whether that’s related to weather or terrain, they can help direct you to a bike that can handle it. “I think there’s a lot of value in the local bike shop versus what most people do now, which is just to go down a rabbit hole of internet advice that doesn’t necessarily get to the right answer very quickly,” he says. Any good shop will allow you to try out the new bikes they sell, which can help you identify what details about a bike are important to you.What about direct-to-consumer bike brands?AccordionItemContainerButton“In cycling, brands don’t equal manufacturer…You’re often buying something from a brand, but it’s made by someone else,” Rome explains. He says there are only a few dozen manufacturers of bikes throughout the world that produce bikes for hundreds and hundreds of different brands. There’s been even more manufacturer centralization since the pandemic, says Graven-Milne. "The quality of a certain bike isn’t always correlated to the brand name attached to it,” she says, though there are some smaller DTC brands that have a sterling reputation.A lot of those smaller DTC brands sell directly to the consumer at a slightly lower price than you’d get at a bike shop. The only problem: You often have to assemble the bike yourself at home. If you’re an experienced rider, this might not be an issue. But Graven-Milne says lots of people come into their shop with bike that they assembled themselves that are now having issues that could have been avoided with property assembly. “People are sometimes like, ‘If you can assemble Ikea furniture, you can build a bike out of a box. It’s the same thing.’ But I do not ride my Ikea couch down the street at 25 miles per hour.”If you do want to buy a bike from one of these companies, Graven-Milne says to get it built at your local bike shop. “Bike shops love it when you bring them a bike-in-a-box,” she says. “You can probably even just ship it directly to the shop, as long as you let them know in advance.”What about bikes from big box stores?AccordionItemContainerButtonThe experts we spoke to for this story cautioned against buying any bikes from big box stores and online warehouses, especially in the below $500 price range. These kinds of bikes, which Graven-Milne says mechanics often refer to as “bicycle-shaped objects,” often arrive with signs they were welded together poorly and fitted with counterfeit components. “It will look like a bicycle to someone that doesn’t really know about bicycles. But it’s more like if you were trying to buy a car and you ended up with a golf cart.” Source link

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The company currently sells seventeen different models, each made with a particular type of off-road rider in mind. There are bikes optimized for perfect handling on long, technical descents, bikes made for people who mainly tackle the rolling hills of a local singletrack loop, bikes that are super efficient on the way up rocky climbs, and even gravel bikes that are pretty efficient on paved roads. To figure out which will work best for you, take the company’s bike finder quiz. All the bikes are priced within a pretty similar range, with the exception of the battery-powered electric options.The Best Affordable Bike Brand: StateState Bicycle Co.Core-LineMost people looking to buy a bike want something with multiple gears so that they can shift to better tackle changes in street gradient. There’s nothing worse than being in a hard, powerful gear when you’re trying to climb a steep hill. Others choose to ride bikes with a single set of gears for the sake of simplicity (and savings) or the sheer flex. If you’re a true novice cyclist, I wouldn’t recommend a single-speed bike, since it’ll make keeping up with your friends or any small hill a real challenge. But if you’re interested in trying one out, consider one from the popular, affordable brand State Bicycle Co. Its entry-level Core Line bikes are well made and the company’s customer support teams are responsive. If you have any issues, they should be able to take care of you.The Best Fixed-Gear Bike Brand: AffinityAffinityMetropolitan Track Frame Set Crimson SkyFixed Gear bikes were massively popular in the early 2010s, mostly associated with gauge-wearing hipsters in cities like Portland and New York. Like single-speed bikes, they offer no other options for gears you can change into. But fixed-gear bikes do not have a freewheel, a component that allows your bike’s rear wheel to keep spinning if you stop pedaling. If you find yourself going downhill on a fixed gear bike, then, you have to make sure you keep pedaling as fast as your bike will want you to. Stopping on a fixed-gear bike can also be a challenge, especially since many fixed-gear bikes don’t come with brakes.This dynamic forces you into a constant and active conversation with your bike, which fixie enthusiasts usually say makes all other kinds of bike riding feel kind of mindless. Sheldon Brown, a bike mechanic and author of “Fixed Gear Bicycles for the Road,” referred to the feeling of riding a fixie as an “almost mystical connection.”The team at Affinity Cycles specializes in producing extremely handsome frames with geometry designed for riding a fixed gear. You’ll have to buy almost all the other components you’ll need—including handlebars, wheels, pedals, a crankset, and a chain—separately, but that’s part of the fun. A fixie should be as unique as its rider, and your local bike shop should have plenty of gear that speaks to your specific aesthetic sensibility.The Best Old-School Bike Brand: RivendellRVNDL BCYCL WRKSRoaduno Complete Bike 2024Most bicycle companies chase the future, updating their entire product line each year with bikes that have the latest greatest in frame geometry and aerodynamics, but also in their components. Rivendell is quite different. The company’s bikes are unabashedly retro, employing the kinds of brakes and shifting mechanisms you would have seen on new bikes produced in the 80s and 90s. That’s because, as Rivendell founder Grant Petersen put it in a recent New Yorker profile, these components, with practice, work just as well as more modern versions, while also being much simpler to live with. If you buy a Rivendell, for instance, you’ll never have to worry whether your derailleur is charged.FAQHow much should I expect to pay for a new bike?AccordionItemContainerButtonYou are not mistaken: New bikes have gotten a lot more expensive. “To get a bike that used to cost you like $500, you now usually have to pay at least $700,” says Graven-Milne. A lot of this acceleration happened during the pandemic, when demand for bikes spiked just as the production of bikes and bike components all but completely halted. Four years out, the demand has softened, so some people expect prices to cool.AccordionItemContainerButtonNikahim says to start by trying to think about the type of cyclist you want to become. Are you imagining yourself riding upright and comfortable on city streets as you navigate morning traffic? Do you think you’ll want to kit yourself out in spandex and rip it as fast as possible around the paved loops of your local park? Or, can you see yourself taking your bike out into the woods and rolling over more varied terrain, like gravel or dirt?Once you have a sense of this, look for a great local bike shop, says Weiss, “If you’re someone who is not a mechanic, who is just getting started in cycling, the most important thing [to do] is go to a shop where people are going to help you and listen to you and give you support.”The people at your local bike shop, by nature of also being local cyclists, are going to understand the needs for cyclists in that area, says Rome. Whether that’s related to weather or terrain, they can help direct you to a bike that can handle it. “I think there’s a lot of value in the local bike shop versus what most people do now, which is just to go down a rabbit hole of internet advice that doesn’t necessarily get to the right answer very quickly,” he says. Any good shop will allow you to try out the new bikes they sell, which can help you identify what details about a bike are important to you.What about direct-to-consumer bike brands?AccordionItemContainerButton“In cycling, brands don’t equal manufacturer…You’re often buying something from a brand, but it’s made by someone else,” Rome explains. He says there are only a few dozen manufacturers of bikes throughout the world that produce bikes for hundreds and hundreds of different brands. There’s been even more manufacturer centralization since the pandemic, says Graven-Milne. "The quality of a certain bike isn’t always correlated to the brand name attached to it,” she says, though there are some smaller DTC brands that have a sterling reputation.A lot of those smaller DTC brands sell directly to the consumer at a slightly lower price than you’d get at a bike shop. The only problem: You often have to assemble the bike yourself at home. If you’re an experienced rider, this might not be an issue. But Graven-Milne says lots of people come into their shop with bike that they assembled themselves that are now having issues that could have been avoided with property assembly. “People are sometimes like, ‘If you can assemble Ikea furniture, you can build a bike out of a box. It’s the same thing.’ But I do not ride my Ikea couch down the street at 25 miles per hour.”If you do want to buy a bike from one of these companies, Graven-Milne says to get it built at your local bike shop. “Bike shops love it when you bring them a bike-in-a-box,” she says. “You can probably even just ship it directly to the shop, as long as you let them know in advance.”What about bikes from big box stores?AccordionItemContainerButtonThe experts we spoke to for this story cautioned against buying any bikes from big box stores and online warehouses, especially in the below $500 price range. These kinds of bikes, which Graven-Milne says mechanics often refer to as “bicycle-shaped objects,” often arrive with signs they were welded together poorly and fitted with counterfeit components. “It will look like a bicycle to someone that doesn’t really know about bicycles. But it’s more like if you were trying to buy a car and you ended up with a golf cart.” Source link

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The company currently sells seventeen different models, each made with a particular type of off-road rider in mind. There are bikes optimized for perfect handling on long, technical descents, bikes made for people who mainly tackle the rolling hills of a local singletrack loop, bikes that are super efficient on the way up rocky climbs, and even gravel bikes that are pretty efficient on paved roads. To figure out which will work best for you, take the company’s bike finder quiz. All the bikes are priced within a pretty similar range, with the exception of the battery-powered electric options.The Best Affordable Bike Brand: StateState Bicycle Co.Core-LineMost people looking to buy a bike want something with multiple gears so that they can shift to better tackle changes in street gradient. There’s nothing worse than being in a hard, powerful gear when you’re trying to climb a steep hill. Others choose to ride bikes with a single set of gears for the sake of simplicity (and savings) or the sheer flex. If you’re a true novice cyclist, I wouldn’t recommend a single-speed bike, since it’ll make keeping up with your friends or any small hill a real challenge. But if you’re interested in trying one out, consider one from the popular, affordable brand State Bicycle Co. Its entry-level Core Line bikes are well made and the company’s customer support teams are responsive. If you have any issues, they should be able to take care of you.The Best Fixed-Gear Bike Brand: AffinityAffinityMetropolitan Track Frame Set Crimson SkyFixed Gear bikes were massively popular in the early 2010s, mostly associated with gauge-wearing hipsters in cities like Portland and New York. Like single-speed bikes, they offer no other options for gears you can change into. But fixed-gear bikes do not have a freewheel, a component that allows your bike’s rear wheel to keep spinning if you stop pedaling. If you find yourself going downhill on a fixed gear bike, then, you have to make sure you keep pedaling as fast as your bike will want you to. Stopping on a fixed-gear bike can also be a challenge, especially since many fixed-gear bikes don’t come with brakes.This dynamic forces you into a constant and active conversation with your bike, which fixie enthusiasts usually say makes all other kinds of bike riding feel kind of mindless. Sheldon Brown, a bike mechanic and author of “Fixed Gear Bicycles for the Road,” referred to the feeling of riding a fixie as an “almost mystical connection.”The team at Affinity Cycles specializes in producing extremely handsome frames with geometry designed for riding a fixed gear. You’ll have to buy almost all the other components you’ll need—including handlebars, wheels, pedals, a crankset, and a chain—separately, but that’s part of the fun. A fixie should be as unique as its rider, and your local bike shop should have plenty of gear that speaks to your specific aesthetic sensibility.The Best Old-School Bike Brand: RivendellRVNDL BCYCL WRKSRoaduno Complete Bike 2024Most bicycle companies chase the future, updating their entire product line each year with bikes that have the latest greatest in frame geometry and aerodynamics, but also in their components. Rivendell is quite different. The company’s bikes are unabashedly retro, employing the kinds of brakes and shifting mechanisms you would have seen on new bikes produced in the 80s and 90s. That’s because, as Rivendell founder Grant Petersen put it in a recent New Yorker profile, these components, with practice, work just as well as more modern versions, while also being much simpler to live with. If you buy a Rivendell, for instance, you’ll never have to worry whether your derailleur is charged.FAQHow much should I expect to pay for a new bike?AccordionItemContainerButtonYou are not mistaken: New bikes have gotten a lot more expensive. “To get a bike that used to cost you like $500, you now usually have to pay at least $700,” says Graven-Milne. A lot of this acceleration happened during the pandemic, when demand for bikes spiked just as the production of bikes and bike components all but completely halted. Four years out, the demand has softened, so some people expect prices to cool.AccordionItemContainerButtonNikahim says to start by trying to think about the type of cyclist you want to become. Are you imagining yourself riding upright and comfortable on city streets as you navigate morning traffic? Do you think you’ll want to kit yourself out in spandex and rip it as fast as possible around the paved loops of your local park? Or, can you see yourself taking your bike out into the woods and rolling over more varied terrain, like gravel or dirt?Once you have a sense of this, look for a great local bike shop, says Weiss, “If you’re someone who is not a mechanic, who is just getting started in cycling, the most important thing [to do] is go to a shop where people are going to help you and listen to you and give you support.”The people at your local bike shop, by nature of also being local cyclists, are going to understand the needs for cyclists in that area, says Rome. Whether that’s related to weather or terrain, they can help direct you to a bike that can handle it. “I think there’s a lot of value in the local bike shop versus what most people do now, which is just to go down a rabbit hole of internet advice that doesn’t necessarily get to the right answer very quickly,” he says. Any good shop will allow you to try out the new bikes they sell, which can help you identify what details about a bike are important to you.What about direct-to-consumer bike brands?AccordionItemContainerButton“In cycling, brands don’t equal manufacturer…You’re often buying something from a brand, but it’s made by someone else,” Rome explains. He says there are only a few dozen manufacturers of bikes throughout the world that produce bikes for hundreds and hundreds of different brands. There’s been even more manufacturer centralization since the pandemic, says Graven-Milne. "The quality of a certain bike isn’t always correlated to the brand name attached to it,” she says, though there are some smaller DTC brands that have a sterling reputation.A lot of those smaller DTC brands sell directly to the consumer at a slightly lower price than you’d get at a bike shop. The only problem: You often have to assemble the bike yourself at home. If you’re an experienced rider, this might not be an issue. But Graven-Milne says lots of people come into their shop with bike that they assembled themselves that are now having issues that could have been avoided with property assembly. “People are sometimes like, ‘If you can assemble Ikea furniture, you can build a bike out of a box. It’s the same thing.’ But I do not ride my Ikea couch down the street at 25 miles per hour.”If you do want to buy a bike from one of these companies, Graven-Milne says to get it built at your local bike shop. “Bike shops love it when you bring them a bike-in-a-box,” she says. “You can probably even just ship it directly to the shop, as long as you let them know in advance.”What about bikes from big box stores?AccordionItemContainerButtonThe experts we spoke to for this story cautioned against buying any bikes from big box stores and online warehouses, especially in the below $500 price range. These kinds of bikes, which Graven-Milne says mechanics often refer to as “bicycle-shaped objects,” often arrive with signs they were welded together poorly and fitted with counterfeit components. “It will look like a bicycle to someone that doesn’t really know about bicycles. But it’s more like if you were trying to buy a car and you ended up with a golf cart.” Source link

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Outdoor Adventures in Fort Lauderdale: From Beaches to the Everglades

Fort Lauderdale, known for its stunning coastline and vibrant city life, is also a paradise for outdoor enthusiasts. Whether you’re looking to bask on beautiful beaches, explore scenic trails, or embark on thrilling adventures in the Everglades, Fort Lauderdale offers a diverse array of outdoor activities. Here’s your guide to the best outdoor adventures in Fort Lauderdale, ensuring an unforgettable experience in this sunny Florida destination.

1. Bask on Pristine Beaches

Fort Lauderdale Beach

Fort Lauderdale Beach is the city's crown jewel, offering miles of sandy shores and crystal-clear waters. Perfect for sunbathing, swimming, and people-watching, it’s a must-visit spot for any beach lover.

Activities: Sunbathing, swimming, beach volleyball, jet skiing

Amenities: Beachfront dining, restrooms, lifeguards, water sports rentals

Lauderdale-by-the-Sea

For a more laid-back beach experience, head to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. This charming, small-town beach is ideal for snorkeling and diving enthusiasts.

Activities: Snorkeling, scuba diving, fishing

Amenities: Pier, seaside cafes, dive shops

2. Explore Scenic Parks and Trails

Hugh Taylor Birch State Park

Located between the Intracoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean, Hugh Taylor Birch State Park offers a serene escape with a variety of outdoor activities.

Activities: Kayaking, paddleboarding, biking, hiking, picnicking

Features: Scenic trails, freshwater lagoon, picnic areas, kayak rentals

Everglades Holiday Park

Just a short drive from Fort Lauderdale, Everglades Holiday Park is your gateway to the unique ecosystem of the Everglades.

Activities: Airboat tours, alligator shows, wildlife spotting

Features: Guided tours, educational exhibits, fishing

3. Thrilling Water Sports

Jet Skiing and Parasailing

For an adrenaline rush, try jet skiing or parasailing along the Fort Lauderdale coast. Numerous rental shops and tour operators offer equipment and guided experiences.

Locations: Fort Lauderdale Beach, Las Olas Beach

Operators: Aloha Watersports, American Watersports

Paddleboarding and Kayaking

Explore the calm waters of Fort Lauderdale’s canals and waterways on a paddleboard or kayak. These activities provide a peaceful way to experience the city’s scenic beauty.

Locations: Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, Middle River

Operators: Blue Moon Outdoor Adventures, Sunrise Paddleboards

4. Wildlife Encounters

Everglades Airboat Tours

A visit to Fort Lauderdale isn’t complete without an airboat tour through the Everglades. Glide across the water and spot alligators, birds, and other wildlife in their natural habitat.

Operators: Everglades Holiday Park, Sawgrass Recreation Park

Features: Guided tours, wildlife spotting, educational information

Butterfly World

Located in nearby Coconut Creek, Butterfly World is the largest butterfly park in the world, offering a magical experience for visitors of all ages.

Activities: Butterfly exhibits, bird aviaries, botanical gardens

Features: Educational tours, interactive exhibits, gift shop

5. Adventure on Two Wheels

Biking Trails

Fort Lauderdale offers numerous biking trails, perfect for exploring the city and its natural surroundings. Whether you’re a casual rider or an avid cyclist, there’s a trail for you.

Top Trails: Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, New River Greenway, Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard

Rentals: Broward BCycle, Fun Center Fort Lauderdale

Conclusion

Fort Lauderdale’s diverse outdoor adventures offer something for everyone, from beach lovers to thrill-seekers. Whether you’re exploring pristine beaches, paddling through scenic waterways, or experiencing the wild beauty of the Everglades, you’re sure to create unforgettable memories. So pack your sunscreen, grab your adventure gear, and get ready to discover the best of Fort Lauderdale’s great outdoors.

Plan your trip today and experience the ultimate outdoor adventures in Fort Lauderdale, where the beach meets the Everglades in perfect harmony.

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US Bike Sharing Market Size, Share, Types, Products, Trends, Growth, Applications and Forecast 2023 to 2030

The US Bike Sharing is Expected to Grow at a Significant Growth Rate, and the Forecast Period is 2023-2030, Considering the Base Year as 2022.

The bike-sharing market refers to the industry and ecosystem of shared bicycle services that operate in a specific region or globally. It involves the provision of bicycles for short-term use to the public on a pay-as-you-go or subscription basis. US Bike Sharing enables individuals to rent bicycles for brief periods, typically ranging from a few minutes to a few hours, and use them for short-distance trips within urban areas.

Over the years, the US bike-sharing business has seen substantial expansion and adoption, particularly in metropolitan centres where inhabitants are looking for more eco-friendly and alternative modes of transportation. With US Bike Sharing, users can borrow bikes for short trips and return them to predetermined stations or drop-off places.

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Leading players involved in the US Bike Sharing Market include:

Motivate (US), Lime (US), Bird (US), Jump (US), Citi Bike (US), Divvy (US), Capital Bikeshare (US), Bluebikes (US), Indego (US), Nice Ride Minnesota (US), Breeze Bike Share (US),CoGo Bike Share (US), Bublr Bikes (US), Houston BCycle (US), Bike Chattanooga (US), Portland Bike Share (US), WeHo Pedals (US), Relay Bike Share (US), Zagster (US), Spin (US) and Other Major Players.

Market Driver:

One of the key drivers propelling the growth of the US Bike Sharing Market is the increasing focus on sustainable transportation solutions. With growing concerns over environmental pollution and climate change, there is a heightened emphasis on reducing carbon emissions and promoting eco-friendly modes of transport. Bike sharing offers a sustainable alternative to traditional modes of transportation such as cars and buses, helping to decrease traffic congestion and air pollution in urban areas. As individuals and governments alike prioritize sustainability initiatives, the demand for bike sharing services is expected to continue rising.

Market Opportunity:

An emerging market opportunity within the US Bike Sharing Market lies in catering to underserved communities and expanding access to transportation options. While bike sharing programs have proliferated in many urban centers, there remains a need to address transportation gaps in suburban and rural areas, as well as in low-income neighborhoods where access to affordable transportation is limited. By strategically deploying bike sharing infrastructure and implementing equitable pricing models, companies and municipalities can tap into new market segments and contribute to greater mobility and connectivity for all residents.

 Segmentation of US Bike Sharing Market:

By Bike Type

Traditional Bike

E-bike

By Sharing System

Docked

Dockless

By Duration

Short Term

Long Term

By User Type

Tourists and Visitors

Regular Commuters

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US Bike Sharing Market Size, Share, Types, Products, Trends, Growth, Applications and Forecast 2023 to 2030

The US Bike Sharing is Expected to Grow at a Significant Growth Rate, and the Forecast Period is 2023-2030, Considering the Base Year as 2022.

The bike-sharing market refers to the industry and ecosystem of shared bicycle services that operate in a specific region or globally. It involves the provision of bicycles for short-term use to the public on a pay-as-you-go or subscription basis. US Bike Sharing enables individuals to rent bicycles for brief periods, typically ranging from a few minutes to a few hours, and use them for short-distance trips within urban areas.

Over the years, the US bike-sharing business has seen substantial expansion and adoption, particularly in metropolitan centres where inhabitants are looking for more eco-friendly and alternative modes of transportation. With US Bike Sharing, users can borrow bikes for short trips and return them to predetermined stations or drop-off places.

Updated Version 2024 is available our Sample Report May Includes the:

Scope For 2024

Brief Introduction to the research report.

Table of Contents (Scope covered as a part of the study)

Top players in the market

Research framework (structure of the report)

Research methodology adopted by Worldwide Market Reports

Moreover, the report includes significant chapters such as Patent Analysis, Regulatory Framework, Technology Roadmap, BCG Matrix, Heat Map Analysis, Price Trend Analysis, and Investment Analysis which help to understand the market direction and movement in the current and upcoming years.

Get Full PDF Sample Copy of Report: (Including Full TOC, List of Tables & Figures, Chart) @

Leading players involved in the US Bike Sharing Market include:

Motivate (US), Lime (US), Bird (US), Jump (US), Citi Bike (US), Divvy (US), Capital Bikeshare (US), Bluebikes (US), Indego (US), Nice Ride Minnesota (US), Breeze Bike Share (US),CoGo Bike Share (US), Bublr Bikes (US), Houston BCycle (US), Bike Chattanooga (US), Portland Bike Share (US), WeHo Pedals (US), Relay Bike Share (US), Zagster (US), Spin (US) and Other Major Players.

Market Driver:

One of the key drivers propelling the growth of the US Bike Sharing Market is the increasing focus on sustainable transportation solutions. With growing concerns over environmental pollution and climate change, there is a heightened emphasis on reducing carbon emissions and promoting eco-friendly modes of transport. Bike sharing offers a sustainable alternative to traditional modes of transportation such as cars and buses, helping to decrease traffic congestion and air pollution in urban areas. As individuals and governments alike prioritize sustainability initiatives, the demand for bike sharing services is expected to continue rising.

Market Opportunity:

An emerging market opportunity within the US Bike Sharing Market lies in catering to underserved communities and expanding access to transportation options. While bike sharing programs have proliferated in many urban centers, there remains a need to address transportation gaps in suburban and rural areas, as well as in low-income neighborhoods where access to affordable transportation is limited. By strategically deploying bike sharing infrastructure and implementing equitable pricing models, companies and municipalities can tap into new market segments and contribute to greater mobility and connectivity for all residents.

 Segmentation of US Bike Sharing Market:

By Bike Type

Traditional Bike

E-bike

By Sharing System

Docked

Dockless

By Duration

Short Term

Long Term

By User Type

Tourists and Visitors

Regular Commuters

Market Segment by Regions: -

North America (US, Canada, Mexico)

Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Rest of Eastern Europe)

Western Europe (Germany, UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, Russia, Spain, Rest of Western Europe)

Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, The Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Rest of APAC)

Middle East & Africa (Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Israel, South Africa)

South America (Brazil, Argentina, Rest of SA)

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