Mountain Bike Bar Ends Purpose
How Mountain Bikes Have Evolved
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that mountain bikes are designed for riding on mountain trails. They were invented by ordinary guys who loved to take their bikes off the road and ride hard on steep dirt tracks. Since Diamondback bikes hadn’t been invented yet, they had to modify the bikes they had with the few tools they had at their disposal.
They started with pretty standard bikes. Road and racing bikes were no good because of their skinny tires. Mountain bikes need fat tires for traction. Racing bikes are made purely for speed. The skinny tires are there to create as little drag as possible, but they have lousy traction.
Those racing bikes did have state of the art derailleurs, though. They took the derailleurs from their racing bikes and adapted them to their fat tired bicycles to make a hybrid bike that had a lot of gears, but fat tires.
The upright handlebars of street bikes were no good for their new bikes. They started off by sticking straight steel bars on their bikes. Later, they added perpendicular pieces of steel to the ends, so they could pull back on the handlebars when they were climbing up steep hills.
Once they had the basic design down, these young entrepreneurs started building bikes from scratch. They began using lighter weight materials and adding refinements to the frame design. Before long, people who saw them riding around on these cool looking bikes started asking them to build one for them.
Only years later did the big companies start making mountain bikes. The Schwinn mountain bike followed the earlier brands. As a result, those small manufacturers established names for themselves and were able to compete. Today, they still hold a large share of the MB market.
All that remained to be invented was a helmet that was both cool looking and functional. A black helmet made for playing football just wasn’t right for blazing down single track mountain trails. Helmet designers went to work and now there are dozens of lightweight helmets that look good and do their job as well.
If anybody thought that the mountain bike was just a fad before, nobody does today. They continue to dominate the market and people ride them on the road even more than off the road. With all the improvements that the big parts manufacturers have come up with, you can now get a bike with 24 gears and disc brakes.
They may not have had the same impact on our lives as the personal computer, but MBs have a similar past. Both the PC and the mountain bike originated as a glimmer in the eyes of a handful of inventive and determined individuals. They both testify to what ingenuity and hard work can accomplish.
Настройка ремонт и уход за велосипедом (MTB Maintenance and Repair)
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