1. 7 Ways to Practice Safety while Bike Riding
(Articles/Safety)

... your ride. 1. Check out your bike. When you roll your bike out of the garage or wherever you have it stored, take a quick look at your bike. Are the brake pads making contact with the rim and not the ...

2. Health Benefits of Cycling
(Articles/Bicycling Basics)

There are many health benefits that are associated with cycling. Let's look at a few of the major benefits: Cycling is one of the easiest ways to exercise You can ride a bicycle almost anywhere, at any ...

3. Biking with the Family
(Articles/Cycling Tips)

... to have an emergency credit card in the pack as well in case you need money fast and don’t have a wallet or checkbook on you.  Biking with Small Children When you first start looking for local ...

4. Where to Bike
(Articles/Bicycling Basics)

... you’re training for a race or riding for fitness. If you are a long distance or tour cyclist or just enjoy riding on the road look for highways that are not frequently used or country roads that ...

5. Break the Belief Barrier
(Columns/Caryn's Corner)

... mash gears fiercely and then brake suddenly. The two-block race would take less than 30 seconds. Hey that sounds easy! I watched the men. It didn't look easy. Frantically I began to ask for technique ...

6. Excursion de Paris
(Columns/Ned'sWorld)

... The more shy and apprehensive the bike rider the more unpredictable you became to the motorists.  At first, you are understandably timid and receive odd looks and quick honks from drivers but over ...

7. Cycling Shoes
(Articles/Bicycling Basics)

... more efficiently. Road cycling shoes have a protrusion at the toe that a rider can use to clip their foot onto a pedal if they use standard bike clips.  Not all riders use clips. When looking at ...

8. The Best Bikes for Adults
(Articles/Bicycling Basics)

... need to pick a bike that can accommodate their leg length but also their shorter arm length. There are lots of small size adjustments that a pro bike shop sales associate is trained to look for that can ...

9. Tips for Choosing A Bike
(Articles/Bicycling Basics)

... a bike for a new cyclist or a bike for a serious competitor the basic things that you should look for are the same. No matter what type of bike you are buying there are some general things to look for. ...

10. Best Cycling Clothes for Adults
(Articles/Bicycling Basics)

... to be cycling for any serious amount of time then you need good cycling socks too. Wearing the right socks can be the difference between a great ride and a horribly uncomfortable one.  Look for high ...

11. Recreational Bicycling
(Articles/Bicycling Basics)

... spend a Saturday morning biking into the hills to see the autumn foliage, or biking to a small craft fair to look around or they might spend a weekend afternoon biking through some local bike parks or ...

12. How To Survive Road Hazards
(Articles/Safety)

... The greased tread might slip in a corner just ahead. Wet oil slicks.  If it rains, a small oily patch can grow until it covers the whole lane. Be on the lookout for the telltale multi-colored water. There’s ...

13. A Safer Ride
(Articles/Safety)

... if you were invisible Let's look at each in detail. Avoid busy streets. One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they start biking is to take the exact same routes they used when they were driving. ...

14. Your Helmet - Your Friend
(Articles/Safety)

... sure the front is in front! You want to adjust it to the "Eye-Ear-Mouth" test developed by the Bicycle Coalition of Maine: When you look upward the front rim should be barely visible to your eye The Y ...

15. Bicycling Captured My Soul
(Columns/Caryn's Corner)

The quest begins in 1990. I awoke one morning, looked in the mirror and realized that I felt old, ugly and fat. I was 36, ten pounds over weight and had to stop at the top of each flight of stairs just ...

16. Geared Up Thank You
(Uncategorised Content)

... us at sales@adultbicycling.com. We look forward to hearing your feedback on the video.  We believe that we've created the best video out there, but we're eager to find out what you think.  If ...