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Cycling 101 – Choosing Your Felt Bike

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There are several key considerations to look at when choosing your Felt Bike, but the basics are ensuring that your bike fits, that your equipment is appropriate and that you understand the Highway Code. If your bike fits well, and is designed to perform the way you want it to, you will find that you enjoy riding more and use your bike more, making its health and monetary benefits more pronounced.
Does your bike fit?
Understanding how to measure and fit a bike is one of the critical first choices you need to make – whether this is by getting yourself measured in a bike shop before choosing your bike on or offline, or if you measure yourself there are a couple of key points to understand. The bike frame will be one of a couple of fixed heights, and can be fine-tuned to your needs from there. Most people end up with a 17 or 18 inch bike, though if you’re very small or taller than 5’8″, you should change your frame size. Once you’ve got the basic frame, you can change the seat height to fine tune your bike. Felt… Continue reading

maureen February 23, 2012 General , , ,

Bombay Bicycle Club Tickets

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Introduction
Bombay Bicycle Club are an indie rock band from Crouch End, London. The band comprises: Jack Steadman (lead vocals, guitar, xylophone, banjo, triangle), Jamie MacColl (lead guitar, backing vocals, banjo, theramin), Ed Nash (bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, mandolin) and Suren de Saram (drums, guitar, backing vocals).
The band were asked to play the opening performance of 2006′s V Festival after winning Channel 4′s “Road to V” competition. Following the release of two EPs and their debut single “Evening/Morning”, the band recorded their debut album, I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose. The album was released on 6 July 2009.
History
Steadman, MacColl, and de Saram were 15 when they started playing under the name The Canals and were cycling through various aliases until they picked Bombay Bicycle Club, named after a chain of Indian restaurants in London. The line-up changed regularly until summer 2006, when Nash joined the band. They played gigs at school and at small London venues such as The Old Blue Last, Lark in the Park and Jacksons Lane.
Progression
On 16 May 2007, NME published an article naming Bombay Bicycle Club “…the hottest band to come from North… Continue reading

maureen February 16, 2012 General , , ,

Folding Bicycles , Store Them Wherever You Like

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Folding bicycles or folders have been designed with multiple hinges and joints, which can be locked when required. The Folding bikes can be folded into a likeable size, which allows it to be carried on trains, buses and all sorts of both public and private modes of communication.
The advantages of a folding bicycle
Folding bikes are better in comparison to the conventional lots. This is because they are easy to be boarded and carried even for long distance travels. This is simply great for it can help you to cover up a part of your journey thus saving a lot of your valuable time and energy.
The other typical folding variety is the one where the parts of the bicycle are separated and then folded together to be carried easily from one place to another.
If you live on the top most floor of an apartment then it is better that you have a folding bicycle. Conventional bicycles need to be stored at the ground floor where there are high chances of the property being stolen or damaged. If you have a folding bicycle you can keep it with you and easily carry it… Continue reading

maureen February 15, 2012 General , , , , ,
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