Ontel Bicycle THE CURRENT

Of all bicycle brands that have circulated in Indonesia, perhaps only a few brands that still survive till today for example Gazelle, Batavus, Simplex, Union, and Raleigh. However, the three brands, the brands only the Gazelle and the Batavus Dutch are still producing the type of bicycle.

In the Netherlands, the bicycle is still the dominant means of transport in community life. Cities in the Netherlands which covers about half, to make people prefer to ride a bike than a car or motorcycle. Bicycle in the Netherlands has a unique nickname that is opafiets (bicycle men) and omafiets (bicycle women). The nickname was probably born from the history of bicycle long enough, so that this type of bike is quite popular since a century ago.

How to look like bicycle today? Here are the latest models of Gazelle and Batavus bicycle. Structurally, the shape and the technology has not changed much. In general there are 2 variants of the single-speed type and type 3 speed. Gazelle has 2 models known as Gazelle Basic model (female type) and model Gazelle Toer Populair (type male and female) as shown in the picture below.

While Batavus has only two models namely Favoriet and Batavus Batavus Old Dutch, as seen below. The two top brands in general can be distinguished from the relatively high handlebars Batavus handlebars higher than the Gazelle.

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Cycling Tips and Tricks How Safe and Comfortable Fixie

Fixie Bike is a bicycle with only one level of acceleration and does not have the Free Wheel. Currently Fixie has become a trend and lifestyle enthusiasts and bike lovers all over the world. Fixie Bike is not only a means of transport or a bike track bike messeger commonly competed in the Velodrome. Fixie is the decoration of everyday throughout the world and ground water as a lifestyle and a healthy means of transportation, cheap, simple, fast and of course environmentally friendly. 

Fixie bikes are very popular sticky with Messenger because of three things simplicity, unbreakability and unstealability (fixie riders will feel the three sensation after being on fixie). Previous zonasepeda already discussed the history and the beginning of it appeared in the world fixie bike, this time editors try to provide tips and tricks how Fixie cycling safe and convenient course.
Step - step cycling Fixie:

1) Select a bike Fixied Gear: 

• How easy and simple to get a bike Fixie is to build a bike from old bicycle which usually has 10 acceleration (bicycle racing old school), which certainly cheaper prices and very easy on the custom. 
• Make sure both sides of dropout is a dropout horizontal, vertical dropouts do not allow for adjustment of chain tension. 
• Some riders change dropout who initially vertical to a horizontal with a dremmel. 
• If it is too complicated to modify the old bike into a fixed gear, you can buy a frame so that now many in the market (unbranded). 
• Giant or Bianchi pista track, is one option if you do not want the worry with modifications and assemble a single gear bike, and of course price and slightly swollen compared to the budget you build your own bike is no freewheel. 
• When beginning to build or select a fixie bike, we'd mess around with the front and rear gear option, the option will apply the brake (break) or not. 
• Lower gear options and the addition of front brake, now is the choice that is widely used. 
• Choose Frame Fixie having corner seat stay and seat tube that is not too steep (roadbike racing in general at this time), it makes you comfortable being on the frame with a sloping angle. 

2) Just Need to Play the Pedal:

• It sounds very simple, but if you look at when controlling fixie, things will turn around and fixie will control you. The consequence is a fall and other things that tentukanya unpleasant. 
• It took a while to get comfortable cycling Fixie, concentrations between rounds pedal with trajectory is mandatory. 

3) Practicing to stop the fixie:

• Practice and exercise at random to stop the bike fixie, so help your mastery of fixied gear. 
• Choice of using the front brake is a good start to start practicing stoping. When there is slip while doing a back-pedal, you do not need to panic because there is still the front brake. As the practice using back-pedal for stoping and slow the rate, the front brakes will not you need more. 
• If you do not learn to stop the fixie from now, the possibility of loss control and enormous injuries occur. 

4) Remove Cycling Computer and Monitor heart rate:

• If before you are accustomed to using the Speedo meter or even detect the heartbeat (heart rate monitor), lepaslah all these devices and your fixie, fixie bicycle riding nikmatikah like when we were kids. 

5) Learn to adjust the tempo of your own:

• Practice for speeding and stop when the above is the recommended fixie. For example when facing a green light traffic light, if the light is green and your position is still far not be forced to sped after her, as best you pedal Condition, many cases of accidents that befell fixie rider because a sudden stop at a red light. 

Tips and Tricks: 1) Practicing in a safe place remote area (a safe place and away from heavy traffic).

• Practice in a safe place from the heavy traffic make you more adept at riding fixie without fear of any taxi that does not see you on the road. 

2) Practicing Stop Skid

• Hands-stop with rear wheel slippage on the wet grass helps your skills berfixie ria in the streets. 

3) Avoid using shoe laces

• Make sure your shoes without a strap, this is to prevent the laces into the chainring when the chains moving. If forced to use shoe laces make sure your shoe laces in a secure position. 

4) Note the level of tension chain

• Always be controlled level of chain tension, this is to prevent the chain apart from the chainring, even in cases of fatal chain chainring melukain foot rider. 

5) Migration to clipless pedals

• Bergantilah to clipless pedals if you already feel comfortable cycling fixie. If it is too less convenient because clipless pedals must use a special bike shoes, you can use toe clips or clip basket model. 
• By using clipless pedals than effective when pedaling, also provide comfort when to stop or slow the rate of your fixie bike. 

6) Prepare always lock 15mm

• Fixie hubs generally do not have a quick release, so we need the key 15 "to loosen bolts and adjust the chain tension. Tension the chain is the "IMPORTANT" on the bike Fixie. 

7) Heating Knee before cycling

• Because fixie bike has only one acceleration, many riders complained of knee strain or cramps when only a few kilometers of cycling. This is due to the lack of mild heating prior to cycling. 

8) Replacing brakes is a good idea (optional)

• Cycling fixie without brakes really unique things and hone skills of cycling. Stopping the bike with relying on pressure on the knee injury certainly could have an effect. This opinion is considered optional, many fixie riders have for years without brakes fixed without any problems. 

9) Ask your friends help you to practice climbing Fixie

• There is no shame to help you climb the Fixie our friends, practice together and sharing experiences helps you become an expert fixie riding. 

Warning 

1) Some countries use a bicycle without brakes is illegal, many laws banning cycling without brakes (brake), please check to see if there is a ban cycling without brakes in your country.
2) Beware of falling lintasa (downhills)

• Be careful on the downhills. Fixie without brakes is very risky on the path down, make sure your feet stay abreast of the pedal stroke, try not to remove the foot from the pedal, it will make you loose control of your fixie bike. 
• Train the knee flexibility, balance the body and improve your pedaling cadence capability helps cycling fixie. 

"Brakeless no problem".

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History of Fixed Gear Bikes

Fixed Gear or are more comfortable with calling it by Fixie bike, is currently on trend among goweser homeland. In addition to transportation and sports equipment currently Fixie has become a lifestyle in different walks of bike lovers. Actually whether it Fixie, originally known as the Fixed Wheel, closely related to the single speed bicycle.
Fixed or Fixed Gear Bicycle Wheel Bicycle, then known in the USA with Fixie term. A bicycle transportation equipment without using Free Wheel. Sprocket (rear gear) without a free wheel directly mounted directly on a fixed hub. When the rear wheels spin the pedals will rotate in the direction of the rear wheels spin. This allows the rider to stop the bike fixie bike without using brakes (brake).

To stop the bike, the rider only needs to attract the opposite direction backward pedal crank, the wheel will automatically slow down and stop.In the world of bicycle racing, fixed gear in use at the track cycling competition which is usually done in a Velodrome (an oval-shaped racetrack without tip). Along with the development era, fixed bicycle is not only used in Velodrome track but the track had started to spread to the highway, as a means of daily transportation. In America fixie road bike was originally introduced by the Bicycle Messengers.

Although Legality Bike Fixie developed in different countries is still a conflict, until now users Fixed a growing and spreading in different countries.

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Mountain Bike History

Mountain bike is actually a modification of the bicycle is used on the highway. Road bike made just for use as a means of transportation on the highway. If used in the mountains (on a steep road) this bike will easily damaged. This makes some people trying to create a strong bike for all types of terrain.Mountain bike, or better known as MTB (Mountain Bike) or ATB (All Terrain Bike), is a bike designed specifically to survive in the past the mountain areas have roads that are not flat and there are rocks. This bike has a design that is wider tires than road bikes, which aims to get better traction.There is much debate about the origins of mountain bikes were first used. According to some accounts, the mountain bike was first tested by the Buffalo Soldiers, one part of the United States army. This bike is prepared for through the streets of the mountains by the U.S. military. Bike trial was conducted by a soldier carrying an officer of Missoulla through Montana to the Yellowstone on the way home and away. The trial was conducted in August 1896.In the range of the 1930s until the 1950s, Joe Breeeze developing the concept of a versatile bike. Joe Breeze, who live in Marin County, California, is developing a bar-tire bikes with high quality. This bike tires 'balloon' with one level of speed. Joe made this bike could be a trend at that time.In the period 1951 to 1956, a community in France named Velo Cross Club Parisian (VCCP), which consists of 20 young people who like cycling, held a sports activity which became the basis of sport mountain bike at the moment. At sporting events, all members of the VCCP using specially modified bikes for the event, which was named French 650-B.In 1953, John Finley Scott of the United States to develop a bicycle that is the embryo of the making of the modern mountain bike. The bike was developed by John Finley Scott was given the name 'Woodsie Bike'. This bike uses frames with diamond shape design which was developed by Schwin World. In addition, this bicycle tires are used tires in the wind. To enhance security, the bike is also equipped with flat handle bars that serves as a safety and booster bike when exploring the mountains.To set the speed and acceleration of this bike, there derailleur gears that allows the rider to manage. This can reduce the burden on motorists so as not too heavy in the run. As for safety and maximize the braking, so the bike is equipped with cantilever brakes.Around the 1970s, there is a community bike in California, the United States who participated in the development of mountain bikes. The community was named The Cupertino Riders, aka the Morrow Dirt Club. This community has developed a mountain bike equipped with thumbshift operation. In addition community located in Cupertino, California commonly used to apply brakes on a motorcycle. This disc-shaped brake mounted on mountain bike product. Bicycles are able to win many championships, held at that time. But this only lasted until 1994.In 1977 Joe Breeze return 'playing' with the concepts of mountain bikes. This time Joe developed a mountain bike that uses a lightweight metal material for artificial body parts bike. In addition to using the lightweight metal, made by Joe's bike was also equipped with tires the size is quite big. Ban the use of size 26 inches x 2a ...> inch. Types of tires used by Joe is the kind Knobby tires Uniroyal.While the rim is used on this bike is a rim Schwin S2. It is also equipped with Phil Wood hubs. Bicycles are quite attractive. Joe Breeze eventually create 10 pieces of this type of bike in June 1978.In the span of the late 1970s until the early 1980s, many bicycle industry began to develop his bicycle production by using lightweight materials that high-tech. If Joe Breeze did in 1978, another case with Tom Ritchey. Together with Gary Fisher and Charlie Kelley, Tom Ritchey formed a firm that mempruduksi bikes with cutting-edge technology. Company by the name of this MountainBikes took part in the exhibition trade industry in 1983. Bicycle design produced by this company from taking basic road bike. It's just that on this mountain bike use a wider frame and fork holder is also adapted to withstand tire wider tires.For the handlebar is also different. On this mountain bike used a straight handlebar, without being curved like the bike to the highway. In addition, there are some parts of this bike that took the design of the existing BMX bike.In 1983 the first mass produced mountain bikes. Mass production mountain bike was first performed in Japan by company Specialized bicycle industry. The model used in this bike takes the design of the bike creations from Tom Ritchey. The difference on this bike has been using 15 units of gear. This further enhances the performance of mountain bikes, also makes the rider more easily use it.

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Ontel Bicycle History

History of old bicycle began in Europe. Around the year 1790, a successful first bike was built in the UK. Embryo of this bike is named Hobby Horses and Celeriferes. Both do not have a mechanism for today's bike, steering rod and pedal system. That there are only two wheels on a wooden frame. You can imagine how awkward and large display both bikes earlier. Even so, they simply help people - in those days - to run. Phenomenal discovery in the story of the past created a bike thanks to Baron Karl von Drais. Von Drais registered as students of mathematics and mechanics in Heidelberg, Germany managed to make an important breakthrough, which proved to be a foundation stone of the development of the next cycle.By Von Drais, Hobby Horse was modified to have a steering mechanism on the front wheels. By taking the energy of motion of both legs, Von Drais able to glide faster time around the garden. He himself calls this vehicle with the name, Draisienne. The news itself was published in local newspapers Germany in 1817.Creation process is then performed Kirkpatrick Macmillan. In 1839, he added that connects the drive shaft between the rear wheels with front tires Draisienne. To run it, the pedals stay there.James Starley started building bikes in the UK in 1870. He produces a bike with a very large front wheel (high-wheel bicycle) was very small rear wheel. This type of bike is very popular all over Europe. Because Starley managed to make a breakthrough by creating the wheel radius and cross-tangent method. Until now, the technology that is still being used. Tail, a lighter bike for dikayuh.Unfortunately, bicycles with big wheels it has many shortcomings. It's a dilemma for those who boned petite and women. Because the position of the pedals and the seat is high enough, they complain of difficulty to drive it. Until finally, a nephew of James Starley, John Kemp Starley find a solution. He creates a safer bike to be ridden by anyone in 1886. This bike had a chain to drive the rear wheels and two wheels the same size.But no less important discoveries made John Boyd Dunlop in 1888. Dunlop managed to find a bicycle tire technology that can be filled with air (pneumatic tire). From here, the rapid early progress of a bicycle. Various forms of bicycle successfully created. As is known then, became the vehicle that's fun bike.In Indonesia, the development of a bicycle is much influenced by the colonizers, especially the Netherlands. They brought in production bike to use around the country enjoy the fresh nature of Indonesia. The habit is contagious in a blue-blooded aborigines. Finally, the bicycle became a prestigious transport.In the next period, when the bicycle's role increasingly driven by technology that carried a variety of motorized vehicles (cars and motorcycles), some people began wanting to preserve history through a collection of antique bicycles. On average, their old bicycle manufacturer's European output. Figures annually between 1940 until the 1950s. And they are very careful in maintaining them."The bike is very different clubs owned by a lot of old bikes used motorcycles. If the motorcycle taxi-motorcycles are mostly old-fashioned bicycle output of China or Japan. In our society, old bicycle that was known by some title, such as Ontel, jeans, beetles and sundung.

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Overview of the low rider bicycle

Want to be a concern when cycling? Just ride a bicycle or bike low rider flat. The attention of some people who will inevitably run into fixed on you.Do you just want to feel the center of attention? At least, as written Solopos, that may be felt by low-rider bicycle enthusiasts in Solo.The desire was also one of the reasons why they have a bike flat. For them, low rider bicycle had character and characteristics that make it very different compared to other types of bikes.Low rider bike does have a characteristic in a frame or skeleton. This flat bike enthusiast, Dimpi, 27, said low rider bike frame has a distinctive curved shape like a rainbow.Curved shape of this skeleton found on a bike for men. While the form of low rider bike frame that is used by women, more resembling the letter S."One of the traits that have low-rider bicycle is its frame form, which is a rainbow-shaped or curved and the letter S. In addition, the fork was also different compared to other types of bikes, "explained Dimpi when met in the region Espos Manahan, Solo, on Wednesday (29 / 7).Other parts such as handlebars and seats, according to Dimpi, also a characteristic that distinguishes low rider bicycle with other types of bikes.Dimpi opinion was agreed by the other low rider, who every Wednesday night in the region are routinely gathered Manahan.Looking at its shape alone, low rider bicycle was invited attention. Besides being flat, this bike also has a unique-shaped handlebar.There is shaped like the Harley Davidson motorcycle-style handlebar, there is also a wide curved up to look bigger than the bike.For Dimpi and other hobbyists, Mehong, 22, using a bicycle flat was a preoccupation of its own. "The reason it is more directed to show off or be the center of attention. Moreover, not everyone has a bike like this. If we were cycling along the road, certainly to the attention of other road users, "said Mehong.
No less prestige
They also feel no less prestige with motorcycle users. In fact, flat bike enthusiasts such as Andi, said cepernya prefer to use bicycles rather than motor cycling from home to work.Why was a low rider bicycle prestige? Do not be mistaken. Low rider bike they pedal, not just any bike.Because the costs they have to spend to have them, it was not small. Though looks small, low rider bicycle prices can reach millions of dollars."At least one million dollars run out to get a low rider bicycle. That is, if you can get the cheapest goods. If the price would be around 2.5 million rupiah, "said another fan, Eko, 22.They mentioned some low rider bicycle spare parts prices are reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars. For example, for the original handlebar, cost about USD 150,000. Not to mention the original fork, the price is still far more expensive than the price of handlebar.Another reason they're so crazy about the bike low rider, none other than because of its unique and nyeleneh.For them, flat cycling is a fun and pleasure, although physically more tiring than using a bike in general.

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LOW RIDER BIKE HISTORY

Low Rider Bike was first introduced in the 1960s, this bike was first introduced by the "custom" king George Barris, before finding the low-rider bicycles Mr. King is his job is menceperkan car, It was Low Rider Car virus is endemic in among young Americans, but the trend can only be felt by young anak2 from rich families just because to make a low rider car requires no small amount of money, while anak2 from the lower classes could only gawk.

Seeing a situation like that the King got the idea by trying to build a bike that refers to the impression of low rider, for the first time the King's experiments apply to the bike. Start the King is introducing his creation of it can be guessed many anak2 from poor families move to create a low rider bicycle.

Seeing opportunity LR bike trend that began in gandrungi finally in 1963 the factory bike for the first time issued SCHWIIN new revolution model "New Cruiser Sting Ray, this model was made based on the motor model dragster models are popular at the moment the model is comfortable itu.Karena ride as well as a unique design, the model is a booming and many children - young children.

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