Cycling Equipment (Gear): Buying Guide

March 2, 2021 by fitbiz Leave a Comment

Cycling Equipment (Gear): Buying Guide.

Get an adrenaline rush as you ride your BMX race bike or enjoy the ride on a comfort bike. Here, you will find a range of bikes – dirt or track racing, mountain trails or on-road cycling, from popular brands including Btwin, Hawk, Fuji and Firefox.

You will also find useful cycling accessories like saddles and seat posts, light and safety bells, backpacks and more, that make your ride comfortable.

Find a wide range of smart backpacks, bags and panniers to carry your water bottle, extra pair of clothing, towels and other essentials such as hand pumps and locks, and protective gear like knee guards, helmets, lights and reflectors. You can also buy cycling accessories like our uber chic glasses.

You can also update your bike with advanced gadgets like cyclocomputers and GPS units. Cyclocomputers calculate and display parameters like speed, distance and time of your trip, while the GPS units guide you in the right direction.

You will also find a range of accessories and bicycles for kids, including colorful helmet options.

Here’s how the gear on a cycle works

Cycling for Weight Loss

Here’s how cycling benefits you to lose weight:

Endurance training burns more fat and helps you get fitter.
Strengthens your body’s biggest muscles – quads, hamstrings, hip muscles, and glutes.
Doesn’t wear out your joint: Unlike other exercises (running, lifting heavy weights), your joints do not get strained a lot as its a non-impact exercise.
An hour of walking burns 150 to 250 calories, jogging burns between 350 and 450 calories, whereas cycling burns 500 to 600 calories in one hour. Cycling also provides a lot more oxygen-rich blood to your working muscles.

Cycling Accessories

You will also find some useful bike accessories like saddles and seat posts, light and safety bells, backpacks and more.

You will find a collection of smart backpacks, bags and panniers to carry your water bottle, extra pair of clothing, towels and other essentials, lightweight hand pumps and locks, uber chic glasses.

Protective Gear

Bikers need to be equipped with protective gear that include knee guards, and helmets. Check out our great collection of bike helmets and helmet accessories like Shield Plus Action camera for enhanced safety.

Gadgets

You can also update your bike with our advanced gadgets like cyclocomputers and GPS units. Cyclocomputers calculate and display parameters like speed, distance and time of your trip, while the GPS units guide you in the right direction.

For Kids

We offer an assortment of accessories and bicycles for kids. You will find colorful helmet options in our BTwin Kiddy collection. We ensure that you have a safe bike ride with high quality components, safety gear, lights and reflectors.

Bike Chain Degreasers

The chain is the most important part of any bike, the bike that transfers the energy of pedaling to the wheels and propels the bike. The chain is that part of the bike that takes the most stress especially if you ride in different terrains, and it for its smooth and efficient functioning, it needs regular cleaning.

Degreasing the bike chain is important but most owners ignore this fact. A dirty chain seriously affects the gear shifts and pedaling, whereas a clean chain will allow you to go faster. If you want better performance when riding your bike, you should focus more on the chain.

An easy and affordable way to increase your riding experience and the overall performance is to use a good bike chain degreaser.

As dish soap is to dishes, a chain degreaser is the magic solution in achieving a clean, shiny, and performing chain. A bike chain degreaser is used to strip dirt and oils from the used chain.

There are some numerous products on the market; here we have listed the best bike chain degreaser for your bicycle.

Pidilite WD-40 Multipurpose Spray: Acts as Degreaser, Rust Remover, Lubricant, Stain Remover, and Cleaning Agent

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