Bicycle

Are you looking to buy one of those popular folding bikes but don’t know how to choose the right one? We’ll help you out with this! When you choose folding bikes, there are typically five features that you should look for to see which one suits you the most. Here are the five criteria that you need to look for in folding bikes: Frame Size – The first thing that you need to check is the frame size of the bike. One thing to take note of is that these bikes pretty much come in a single size. It is...

Women are told many things when they go to buy a road bike. Advice comes from all angles. There is Bike Riding Friend, Triathlete Colleague and Bike Shop Guru to name a few. Advice can overlap, but it can also greatly vary. Bikes are often purchased on impulse anyway, at the shop with the best salespeople, and can be often regretted once out on the road. I’ve seen this happen all too often, and I’d like to make the process easier for you. No matter how much you currently ride, what you ride and where you ride, there should always...

Buying a bicycle can be a challenge! This is particularly the case for women as the obvious physical differences between women and men can make it hard for women to find the ideal bike for them or the right fit in a male dominated bike world. Buying a women’s bike is definitely not as straightforward as buying a men’s bike. This is largely because bike manufacturers have only recently woken up to the fact that men are not the only people who cycle. We’ve spoken to the experts at Cyclefit and, in consultation with some of GGB’s female friends, we have created the...

The sun is shining and the birds are chirping, which means that the unnecessary heat that permeates overcrowded subway cars and packed buses is about to make your daily commute into a three-month stretch of sweaty misery. If you’re interested in avoiding this ordeal altogether—or simply picking up a two-wheeled method of burning hundreds of calories per hours—now is a great time to become the bicycle person you’ve always wanted to be. This task is not as simple as buying a bike, adjusting the seat to a height that looks like the right one, and pedaling off into the sunset....

Buying a bike today can be as easy as clicking a button on a website. In the U.S., dozens bike brands of varied size have sales models that range from online-only with direct shipping to customers (Canyon and Commencal, for example), to hybrid digital/physical models like Trek’s and Giant’s, where you’ll still work with a local retailer for delivery and service. Past that, there are a number of online retailers like Competitive Cyclist, Jenson, and REI where you can purchase high-end road, mountain, and gravel bikes whenever the time is right. But is purchasing a bike online right for you? There are pluses and minuses to buying digitally versus...