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		<title>What&#8217;s the difference between a road bike and a mountain bikes rear gears?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know if I swap out tires on my mtn. bike, I can gain some speed, but what about gears?  I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s any appreciable difference.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know if I swap out tires on my mtn. bike, I can gain some speed, but what about gears?  I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s any appreciable difference.</p>
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		<title>Mountain Biking Maintenance and Repair : Choose Gears for Mountain Bikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Learn how to choose gears and gearing on amountain bike in this free online video on cycling maintenance and repair. Expert: Mickey Denoncourt Contact: www.spookybikes.com Bio: Mickey Denoncourt owns Spooky Bikes, at www.spookybikes.com. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
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Learn how to choose gears and gearing on amountain bike in this free online video on cycling maintenance and repair. Expert: Mickey Denoncourt Contact: www.spookybikes.com Bio: Mickey Denoncourt owns Spooky Bikes, at www.spookybikes.com. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso</p>
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		<title>Sonic Riders-Ride on Bike Gear&#8217;s Theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pbik</dc:creator>
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		<title>Mountain Bike Custom Gears &amp; Parts : How to Change a Mountain Bike Gear Cassette</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pbik</dc:creator>
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Learn how to change a mountain bike gear cassette easily and efficiently in this free bike care and maintenance video series. Expert: Mickey Denoncourt Contact: www.spookybikes.com Bio: Mickey Denoncourt owns Spooky Bikes, at www.spookybikes.com. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso
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Learn how to change a mountain bike gear cassette easily and efficiently in this free bike care and maintenance video series. Expert: Mickey Denoncourt Contact: www.spookybikes.com Bio: Mickey Denoncourt owns Spooky Bikes, at www.spookybikes.com. Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso</p>
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		<title>128 &#8211; Bike gears</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pbik</dc:creator>
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		<title>Purchasing Biking Accessories And Gears Performance Bike Promotional Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pbik</dc:creator>
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Biking or mountain biking is a favorite sport among many. The active men, women and kids who get them engaged in one of these biking expeditions would surely require some biking accessories for it. There are many biking accessories available which would make it easy and comfortable to go for any biking expedition. Just as [...]]]></description>
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<p>Biking or mountain biking is a favorite sport among many. The active men, women and kids who get them engaged in one of these biking expeditions would surely require some biking accessories for it. There are many biking accessories available which would make it easy and comfortable to go for any biking expedition. Just as the popularity of the sport of biking, there is also the mushrooming of many online stores selling biking gears and accessories. The performance bike promotional code offered by these online stores helps the biker to buy these biking gears and accessories at a discounted price. But make sure to take a membership of this website to avail of the benefits offered by performance bike promotional codes.</p>
<p>The right type of biking gears and accessories can make a lot of difference between a biking expedition that is good and the other that is great. Biking expeditions can be effective and comfortable with the use of these biking gears and accessories. There are many biking accessories and gears required by a cyclist. To name a few of them mention has to be made of the bikes, bike parts, tubes, tires, frames, tools, accessories and bike lights. All these essential materials for biking are available in the online stores at certain discounts through performance bike promotional codes. Correct form of indoor training, products of nutrition or hydration, bike jerseys, bike shorts, gloves, socks, shoes, eye wear and pedals are some other requirements for a memorable and enjoyable biking expedition. These biking accessories can also be bought by a cyclist with the use of performance bike promotional code offered by the online stores.</p>
<p>To enjoy the benefits of performance bike promotional codes a biker person requires joining the performance team of the online store. Joining the performance team of this online store would ensure a membership card of $25. At the same time the buyer would be able to earn a shopper point equaling to 10% of the products that they buy. The homepage of performance bicycle would also ensure each and every customers with some deals relating to money saving. The valued customers can look forward to get about 75% off at the Outlet Sale but only on items of selected type.</p>
<p>If you are crazy about biking and don&#8217;t care to spend money on various biking accessories and gears, then you can apply for the Rewards Mastercard of the online store. Applying for this card would help the customers to buy coupons of $20. The Bill Me Later section of the online store gives a unique opportunity to the customers to pay within 90 days from the day of purchase. But the total bill amount of such a purchase needs to be more than $250.</p>
<p>The total charges of your purchase can be done by putting on the performance bike promotional code that you have been offered into the promotional code box. Thereafter you can click on the plus symbol to have knowledge about the total amount. The performance bike promotional codes can be best used for the purpose of shopping if you have a clear idea about the available products. For this make necessary request to the online store to send a free catalog of their products to your mailing address. The best customer care along with instructional guides and videos available on the website of the online store is very helpful.</p>
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<p>Looking for biking accessories and gears? Get discounts on various biking accessories and gears by availing <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.debtkid.com/coupons/hobbies/performance-bike">performance bike promotional code</a> offered by the online store. Become a member of the online store to get benefits on <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href="http://www.debtkid.com/coupons/hobbies/performance-bike">performance bike promotional codes</a> offered by the store.</p>
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		<title>Mountain Bikes &#8211; Different Usages And Working Efficiencies Of Mountain Bike Gears</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 13:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The basic bicycle wheels were from a horse fatigued carry, arranged of wood along a metal belt around the bicycle frame, exact strict and exact painful to drive.
 
 
After that a man named Dunlop (Scottish) made-up the pneumatic tire, this beside with Macadam (a new Scot) inventing the tar way superficial arranged cycling a plight additional [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The basic bicycle wheels were from a horse fatigued carry, arranged of wood along a metal belt around the bicycle frame, exact strict and exact painful to drive.</p>
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<p>After that a man named Dunlop (Scottish) made-up the pneumatic tire, this beside with Macadam (a new Scot) inventing the tar way superficial arranged cycling a plight additional pleasant.</p>
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<p>The bicycle frame, alike the bicycle frame hasn&#8217;t altered plenty in arrangement, it&#8217;s yet around and every time will be. Beginning at the basic wooden rims the next were arranged of steel, then mix metals and currently if you can attempt it, carbon. Of all bicycle articulation the bicycle border can create a great big distinctness to how your bike touches.</p>
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<p> Basic the load of your frame affect emotionally your running and climbing as the load will little you below, for a protracted, smooth work the load isn&#8217;t so valuable as while you acquire the wheels rolling the load can support to manage them going. The profile of the frame can be focal also, a smooth frame is greatest for climbing as aerodynamics are not so focal on a mound, a absorbed area, aero, frame will support you graze by way of the air, however in a cross air currents could originator you managing difficulty.</p>
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<p>Bicycle Rims resources</p>
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<p>The altered resources utilize for rims are exact focal also, steel is important broken if broken can be challenging to pluck out behind into profile, however for the reason that its so bright it is absolutely hard to curve in the basic position and steel is low in quality than all the alternative resources.</p>
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<p> Mix metals is likely to happen the largely current frame, it can be arranged in a few form and profile, smooth or aero, however not too absorbed as it would then weigh too plenty, largely absorbed portion rims are of a mix metals braking portion nearby the tire which is then mounted to a carbon absorbed area for weightlessness and aerodynamics and a exact appealing watching bicycle frame.</p>
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<p>As with largely idea if money is no problematic you can move out for the most excellent, this would be an all carbon frame, potent and exact easy, but there are a only some difficulty with these rims, basic they don&#8217;t brake so perfect in moisture case and you should make use of particular brake blocks for carbon and they can be high-priced, also the frame has to be rightly around and not have some bulges in the frame wall up as this will produce braking absolutely inconsistent, carbon is a hard fabric to operate with and should be perfect seem to be like.</p>
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<p>Brand of Rim to Regard a Certain Way</p>
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<p>There are also two class of frame to regard a certain way and this rely upon on which way of tire you wish for to work, basic there are tubular tires these are glued on to the bicycle frame, charge extra and are hard to refurbish after a deflate, but for racing they think and drive extremely well. Clincher tires have made better abundance, fresh and are virtually as skilled as tubular for act and are definitely repairable and extra practically priced. Largely maker promote to all styles in one and the other way.</p>
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<p>So which must I good buy? Not an stress-free reply, as there is so plenty to pick from, years since you gone to your regional bike supermarket, selected out which hubs, spokes and rims you wanted and he would create your wheels, however instantly largely frame makers also manufacture there private wheel position, Mavic, Shimano and Campanology are likely to happen the greatest renowned, analysis out there web-sites for all there recent goodies, there are alternative strokes and if you move to your regional cycle supermarket or review in the bike magazines you&#8217;ll learn them. There is abundance, to prefer form, but they are all around.</p>
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		<title>My bike gears keep shifting late, and going out of gear?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just bought a used TREK 830 mountain bike with a shimano 21 speed. It rides alright, but the only  problem is somtimes when shifting (paddle shifter) it takes some gear grinding to shift into gear. Also when I stand up to pedal hard the bike goes out of gear and into another gear. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just bought a used TREK 830 mountain bike with a shimano 21 speed. It rides alright, but the only  problem is somtimes when shifting (paddle shifter) it takes some gear grinding to shift into gear. Also when I stand up to pedal hard the bike goes out of gear and into another gear. How do I fix this?</p>
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		<title>How Mountain Bike Gears Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 13:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gears in mountain bikes just keep getting more and more intricate. The bikes of today have as many as 27 gear ratios. A mountain bike will use a combination of three different sized sprockets in front and nine in the back to produce gear ratios.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The gears in mountain bikes just keep getting more and more intricate. The bikes of today have as many as 27 gear ratios. A mountain bike will use a combination of three different sized sprockets in front and nine in the back to produce gear ratios.</p>
<p>The idea behind all these gears is to allow the rider to crank the pedals at a constant pace no matter what kind of slope the bike is on. You can understand this better by picturing a bike with just a single gear. Each time you rotate the pedals one turn, the rear wheel would rotate one turn as well (1:1 gear ratio).</p>
<p>If the rear wheel is 26 inches in diameter, then with 1:1 gearing, one full twist on the pedals would result in the wheel covering 81.6 inches of ground. If you are pedaling at a speed of 50 RPM, this means that the bike can cover over 340 feet of ground per minute. This is only 3.8 MPH, which is the equivalence of walking speed. This is ideal for climbing a steep hill, although bad for ground or going downhill.</p>
<p>To go faster you&#8217;ll need a different ratio. To ride downhill at 25 MPH with a 50 RPM cadence at the pedals, you&#8217;ll need a 5.6:1 gear ratio. A bike with a lot of gears will give you a large number of increments between a 1:1 gear ratio and a 6.5:1 gear ratio so that you can always pedal at 50 RPM, no matter how fast you are actually going.</p>
<p>On a normal 27 speed mountain bike, six of the gear ratios are so close to each other that you can&#8217;t notice any difference between them. </p>
<p>With actual use, bike riders tend to choose a front sprocket suitable for the slope they are riding on and stick with it, although the front sprocket can be difficult to shift under heavy load. It&#8217;s much easier to shit between the gears on the rear.</p>
<p>If you are cranking up a hill, it&#8217;s best to choose the smallest sprocket on the front then shift between the nine gears available on the rear. The more speeds you have on the back sprocket, the bigger advantage you&#8217;ll have.</p>
<p>All in all, gears are very important to mountain bikes as they dictate your overall speed. Without gears you wouldn&#8217;t be able to build speed nor would you be able to pound pedals. The gears will move the pedals and help you build up speed. </p>
<p>There are all types of gears available in mountain bikes, all of which will help you build up a lot of momentum if you use them the right way.</p>
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