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The Bicycle City, touring, road, track or mountain bike?
The Bicycle City, touring, road, track or mountain bike?
City, touring, road, track or mountain bike? |
 In absolute among the more fascinating and versatile means of transport, the bicycle boasts a history long more than two centuries. From a simple vehicle and mean of transport to a technological sport tool, it accompanies the human history since 1818, when the German Karl Christian Ludwig Drais from Sauerbronn patented the Draisina, a first rudimentary bicycle in wood and iron without brakes and pedals. For every specific use, the bicycle gets today special characteristics. Close to the traditional "city" or "touring" model, they are in fact a lot of sport bikes. The most known and diffused is with no doubt those "for road activity", also used by the champions to ride at important races like Milan-Sanremo, Tour of Lombardy, Tour of Flanders, or the big stage-races as Tour de France and Giro of Italy. After the first models in steel, the producers of run bikes passed by the aluminium leagues to the titanium up to the fibers of carbon, able to give more "rigidity" to the bicycle in the sprints or in slope. Very similar to that for road is the cyclecross bike, with different tarpaulins and some technical shrewdness to avoid the obstacles of the ground and the block of the wheels for the mud. Useful to acquire a good rhythm of pedaled and a particular familiarity, the bike for track use is characterized by the fixed pinion and from the absence of brakes. Very different from all the other it is instead the mountain bike, usable also on road but above all on excavated runs or "off-road". In comparison to the traditional bikes, the mountains bikes have tarpaulins more large and, a structure more "compact" and resistant and dampers to reduce the bumps. To everyone his special bike. Sonya Argelli bicicletta 
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