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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