A modern bicycle is not only a vehicle. This is sports, health, relaxation, adventure romance and just a lifestyle. Therefore, the purchase of a bicycle should be taken seriously, carefully weighing and considering everything.
Coming to the question of which bike is better to choose, the first thing you need to decide on the style of riding. Asphalt roads or rough terrain, city parks or rocky mountainsides, long trips or short walks - each bike has its own purpose. Numerous types of bikes presented on the modern market can be divided into two categories - casual and sports. The first category includes city and road bicycles, and the second - sports-tourist, track, mountain, highway, hybrid, downhill and trial bikes. All of them are designed for specific purposes, designed for specific loads and should be used in certain conditions. Therefore, when deciding which bike is best to choose, you need to clearly know what it is for.
Of course, in the city you can ride a sports bike. But such models, as a rule, are not equipped with a trunk and wings, and many of them do not have a chinring that protects the right leg from the teeth of a large sprocket. All these nuances are the key to a comfortable ride, so you need to consider them in advance in order to avoid disappointment in the future. Many important characteristics depend on the type of bike: weight, speed, maneuverability, road surface requirements, strength, stability. And in the store, to the question “Which bike is better to choose?” Any competent seller will answer: “Looking for what.”
For a city bike, the main qualities are compactness and ease of maintenance, for a road bike, the ability to develop high speed, for a road bike, high strength. Mountain bike designed for cross-country and off-road riding. It will have to jump over fallen trees, overcome small rivers and streams, and in some places and carry it on yourself, climbing a steep slope. Therefore, such a bicycle with high strength and cross-country should have a small mass. Downhill bike rides just down the slopes. It is designed for high-speed descents from the mountains, so it should have even higher strength and maximum cross-country ability. At the same time, the weight does not matter much, therefore such bikes can be very heavy due to the reinforced frame design, powerful disc brakes and other details. Jump and Stunt Bikes (BMX) are highly impact resistant, and track bikes are designed to achieve high speed.
If we talk about which bike is better to choose for the city and simple cross-country trips, we can advise a cross-country series. This is a universal type, which is suitable for country roads, and for parks, and for mountainous terrain with small differences in elevation.
The next, no less important question - which bike company is better? Of course, if the opportunity allows, you should give preference to a well-known brand like Klein Bicycle Corporation, Trek Bicycle Corporation or Kona Mountain Bikes. The name of the manufacturer is to some extent a guarantee of quality, although there are exceptions. For example, budget models of well-known companies, as a rule, are equipped with cheap hanging equipment, which quickly fails. Brands such as Merida, Atom Racing, Marin Bikes are also characterized by a fairly high quality of manufacture and assembly, but with the same configuration, the bikes of these companies are significantly cheaper than products of untwisted brands. Like the best bicycle manufacturers, these companies assemble their products in Southeast Asia. It’s definitely not worth buying a bicycle in an auto parts store, on the clothing market or in other dubious places, otherwise it will have to be repaired after each trip.
Having decided on the choice of model and size of the bike, it remains to adjust it, and you can hit the road.