Sunday, December 22, 2013

Best Items For Your Mountain Bike

New Tires –  Can breathe new life into any tired bike or allow you to tackle terrain in a completely different way. Old, worn out tread doesn’t offer much traction and new tread designs and compounds come out each year. Maybe you’ve always rode the same tires year in and year out and should try something new. Ask your buddies or your local shop what they like to ride.





 Tubeless Kit – Riding tubeless allows you to run lower pressures and avoid punctures. For mountain bikers tubeless is a no-brainer. The setup is often lighter than tubes so you have less rotating mass to accelerate or decelerate. If you don’t have tubeless wheels it’s easy to buy a conversion kit or research Ghetto Tubeless (remember to buy tubeless ready tires).



 Wider Handlebar – Have you not jumped on the wide bar trend yet? If you haven’t, you should give it a go. It puts you in a much better riding position with a lot more leverage for climbing. The aggressive guys have been running wide bars for a while now but I think everyone should try them out on their ride.




 New Grips – Speaking of contact points, a new set of grips is always a great purchase. Grips get worn pretty heavily if you ride a lot and new ones always feel so nice and plush. If you haven’t got a set of lock-on’s you might look into those as well. They are much more secure.





 Better Pedals – The contact points of a bike are very important. One of the most important parts of a bike in my opinion is the pedals. Once you’ve ridden a good set of wide platforms with aggressive traction pins or a dialed set of  clipless pedals, you’ll notice you have a lot more confidence in rough sections of trail. I suggest platforms from Twenty6 (made in the USA), Point1 Racing, (made in the USA), or Straitline (made in Canada). For clipless I stick with Shimano XT / XTR or Time.





 Riding Shoes – Riding shoes go hand in hand with pedals. Good mountain bike shoes with the right rubber compound can make a huge difference. They stick to the pedals better and have a stiffer sole for better power transfer. For those that ride platforms 5.10 is the best you can get. Their rubber compounds sticks to pedals like glue. If clipless is more your game Specialized, Giro, Shimano, and Sidi all make some of the best MTB clipless shoes







 Riding Specific Eyewear – If you ride in a lot of different conditions a pair of sunglasses with interchangeable lens come in very handy. I’ve had riding glasses with multiple tint lens for a while now and never ride without them. It’s nice to be able to switch to orange, yellow, or clear in low light conditions.

 Nike is developing a pair of glasses for bike riding that could very well save your life. The glasses will extend your peripheral vision so that you are able to see objects behind you. The Nike Hindsight glasses have a special lens on the sides that allows for a field of view greater than the human limit of 180º. It will give you an extra 25º of viewing on both sides, making you see things like some bugs no doubt see the world.The lenses distort the images on the side but the human eye can only detect motion in that area anyway, so the image will remain clear to you. You’ll be able to see cars or pedestrians coming up from behind you. It’s still a concept at the moment, but I’m sure this is one we will actually see in about 5 years or so.

if you have all this then you're redy for riding  go for it people .:))



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