FIxed Gear BIke

Tips and Trick How To Rider Safe on Fixed Gear
Cyclingzones – Fixed gear bicycle is only one level of acceleration and currently do not have Free Wheel. Currently fixie has become a trend and lifestyle enthusiasts and lovers of bicycles around the world.
Fixie Bike is currently not only a means of transport or a bike track bike messeger commonly competed at the Velodrome.

Fixie has become a decoration of everyday around the world and the homeland as a lifestyle and a healthy means of transportation, cheap, simple, fast and environmentally friendly course.

Very closely with popular Fixie Bike Messenger because of three things simplicity, unbreakability and unstealability (fixie rider will feel a sensation after it was 3 above fixie).

Previous we already discussed the history and the beginnings of it appeared in the world fixie bike, this time the 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 a bike built from old bicycles which usually have 10 acceleration (bicycle racing old school), which is certainly cheaper prices and very easy to custom.
- Make sure both sides of the dropouts are horizontal dropouts, vertical dropouts do not allow for adjustment of the level of tension in the chain.
- Some of the rider to change the original dropout vertical to a horizontal to make dremmel.
- If it is too complicated to modify long been a fixed gear bike, you can buy a frame so that today many in the market (unbranded).
- Giant or Bianchi Pista track, is one option if you do not want the worry about the 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 selection, the choice will apply the brake (break) or not.
- Choice of low gear and the addition of front brake, now is the choice that is widely used.
- Choose Frame Fixie with corners seat stay and seat tube that is not too steep (roadbike racing in general at this time), it makes you feel comfortable on top of the frame with a sloping angle.

2. Just Need to Play the Pedal:
- It sounds very simple, but if you do not look when controlling fixie, it 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, the concentration between the trajectory of the pedal rotation 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 begin practicing stoping. When slippage occurs when doing back-pedal, you do not need to panic because there is still a front brake. As practicing menggunkana back-pedal for stoping and slow the pace, the front brake you will not need anymore.
- If you do not learn to stop the fixie from now, the possibility of loss control and enormous injuries occur.
4. Remove the Cycling Computer and Heart Rate Monitor:
- If before you are accustomed to using the speedo meter or even detecting the heart rate (heart rate monitor), lepaslah all these devices and your fixie, fixie bike riding nikmatikah like when we were children.
5. Learn to adjust the tempo of your own:
- Practicing for speeding and stop when the above is the recommended fixie. For example when facing a traffic light green light, if the light turns green and your position is still far away do not be forced to go after him quickly, conditioning your pedals as much as you, many cases of accidents that befell fixie riders because a sudden stop at red lights.
Tips and Tricks:
1. Practicing in a safe place remote area (a safe place and away from congested traffic).
-Practice in a safe place of heavy traffic make you more adept fixie bike ride without fear of any taxi that does not see you on the road.
2. Practicing Stop Skid
- The practice stopped with the rear wheel slippage on wet grass helps your skills berfixie ria in the streets.
3. Avoid using lace-up shoes
- Make sure your shoes without laces, this is to prevent the laces into the chainring when the chain moves. If forced to use a lace-up shoes make sure your shoelaces in a safe position.
4. Consider the chain tension
- Always be controlled level of tension the chain, this is to prevent the chain regardless of the chainring, even in cases of fatal chainring chain melukain riders legs.
5. Migrating to clipless pedals
- Bergantilah to clipless pedals if you already feel comfortable cycling fixie. If it is too uncomfortable for clipless pedals must use a special bike shoes, you can use toe clips or clip basket model.
- By using clipless pedals but effective when pedaling, also provide comfort when stopping or slowing the pace of your fixie bike.
6. Prepare always lock 15mm
- Fixie hubs generally do not have quick releases, 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. Knee warming before cycling
- Because fixie bike has only one acceleration, many riders complained of knee straining or cramping when only a few kilometers of cycling. This is due to the lack of a light warm-up prior to cycling.
8. Install the brake is a good idea (optional)
- Cycling fixie without brakes is something unique and hone the 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. Invite your friends to help train up the Fixie
- There is no shame to help you climb the Fixie our friends, practice together and sharing experiences helps you become expert fixie riding.

warning
1. Some countries use a bicycle without brakes is illegal, many laws banning cycling without brakes (brakes), please check to see if there is a ban cycling without brakes in your country.
2. Alert on lintasa down (downhills)
- Be careful on the downhills. Fixie without brakes is very risky on the track that 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.
- Allowing the knee flexibility, body balance and improve your pedaling cadence helps cycling fixie.
“Brakeless no problem”.
Tips and Trick How To Rider Safe on Fixed Gear