Tips & Triks
Besides hiking and mountenering, ride a mountain bike (MTB) is called a challenging adventure. Some advantages using MTB as an adventure or just a walk in nature, is the very distant cruising than hiking by foot. All the fields that can be passed on foot would have to use a MTB. Unless the terrain to climb (rock climbing) or down a cliff (rapeling)
In addition to the wide coverage and far, with mountain biking you will feel the sensation that is not measurable when the encounter long derivative. Encouraging bike at full speed, across the corner, jump over bumps, drop-off in the recesses of land .... an experience that will not be forgotten. Not to mention the wind blowing on my face when he drove very fast on the field of derivatives ... like riding a jet-coaster.
Everything is capable of adrenaline, a pounding heart and as if in this world there's only us, bikes and tracks. Not to mention when we drove through the bushes, twigs and leaves, as if through a mysterious tunnel .... as if we will enter another world.
It took hours of high flying in order to control the bike properly and safely in a variety of high-speed tracks. It takes skill and skill can not be instant, we get without playing ... playing ... and playing in nature. The more often the natural cycle to the more skilled we control the bike and know what we do when encounter various types of tracks. So we know exactly how to drive on the track sandy soil, rocky tracks (macadam), slippery clay track, and dirt-covered ground rotting leaves and so on.
Before you start mountain biking adventure in the wild, make sure the conditions in the state of the body fit and healthy. Forget this activity if we are in a state does not fit or sick. Because of the unhealthy condition of body search only hurt and will only make trouble companion. Unhealthy body conditions will make no maximum concentration, no energy and will only worsen the condition because the body organs are forced to work hard.
Make sure that the conditions in the state of the bike ready for a fight. Check brake function something perfect, whether the brakes were still thick canvas and does not leak brake fluid (hydraulic brakes), see also whether the brakes were still thick rubber (v brake). Tighten bolts (quickrelease) in the hub. Check also the wind at the front and rear shock is not too loud or too soft. Wet chain with lubricating oil. Especially dry chain will rust easily damaged and broken.
Make sure the brake lever and the switching gear worked perfectly. Likewise, the switching gear system is working well, do not jump or do not want to move.
When facing a steep uphill track make sure the teeth on the front and rear light position. Front blade smallest crank, and the rear blade greatest seprocket. If too much light can be adjusted with the stroke. Install high saddle, so we paddled like the running, this will alleviate strokes. The more steep slopes greater the gravity force to the rear. If our bodies are too backward so the front tires will likely rise and we will fall. Keep the body leaning forward, to make the front tires stay flat on the track.
Pedal slowly, do not hurry or anxious, enjoy the semester after semester, we wrote a track to climb through. Breathe as normally as possible, equate the rhythm when stepping off the air, when he pulled the pedal pull the breath. The more we played a lot more intense then we on the rise. The rest there is a problem fortitude and patience ... .. through suffering.
When the long and derivatives across a steep, make sure our weight a little backward. This meant that we should balance the gravity force to the fore and rear wheels stay flat on the track. Bikes so we can certainly control. Do not be too eager across generations. Look far ahead, not the front tire. Derivatives on the track we will drive very fast, with a view far ahead we could see a wider track in front of us, we will know and will decide which path to take. Look carefully at the track, if there are rocks, roots that crossed, in a niche, muddy soil, soil covered with moss and so on.
In derivative steep and slippery, do not use the front brake, use the rear brake to slow down occasionally. Pressing hard rear brake lever would only make the rear tires and the twisted rear tire lost cause contractions in the soil, so the bike difficult to control.
Play nice mountain bike but also risky and dangerous, then we need to wear a helmet, elbow protectors, knee and gloves. In addition we will usually play at a location away from the crowds, away from the stalls to eat, shop or bike shop. So pack (hydrobag) that we bring to you the contents with all the equipment, such as bring snacks and drinks, rain jacket, P3K equipment, spare tire, pump, tire opening, the key L, glue and patched tires, tool chain connector, oil lubricants, tires opening bars.
Better our backpacks heavy but we are safe and comfortable adventure with a mountain bike in nature, than we want to runaway and did not carry the equipment. If something happens on the road, such as a flat tire or broken chain, hoping to bring the equipment just friends, if not, then we will lead our bikes along the tracks to find the garage, or car to the city charter. Sad is not it?
If we want to assemble or buy a mountain bike, make sure first what kind of bike you want adapted to the type of game and what path to go through. If we only want to play in mild off-road tracks, in and out of the dirt road in villages. So our choice is the type of bike cross-country (XC) with a front shock only (hardtail)
If we dream of a bike that is expected to be played in all fields, through the rise and fall is not too extreme then the choice of all mountain bike (PM) with fullsuspension on the front and the rear is perfect.
Whereas if we want a more exciting challenge, down the hill or mountain in a high speed adrenaline, leaped high mound, or drop off 1 to 2 meters, then bike option we raft is Freeride (FR) or downhill (DH).
If you already know exactly what kind of bike you want, and how much budget we have. We've been able to assemble a bike that we want. This mountain bike assembling advantages, can be adjusted with the budget we have. Because every time when we have more money and we want to challenge the frame and components lauin can we upgrade to a higher. Or replace the premises spec bike more.
For beginners, the first time to play bike, a suitable type of bike is XC. Along with the frequency of play, the better control on many fronts, it can be changed later to a bicycle AM, did not stop there if you want another challenge, like trying to drop off as high as 1 meter can be assembled over the FR or DH bike.
Many options bicycle frames and components XC, AM and FR / DH in the market. Usually different prices to determine the material type, weight or lightness, durability and comfort of a frame or mountain bike components.
Many brands of frames and components are bought and sold on the market. Is useful to look first at bike shops, be picky, browsing the network, asked a friend who was already playing a bicycle, the frame and components of what is good and in accordance with the budget we have.
Assembling the bike will usually make the budget swelled, because usually we would choose the frame and good components. If it does not want to happen, the only option is to buy a mountain bike intact (full bike) who lived and the way we ride.
Do not forget to bring communications tools like HP or HP Satellite or if you want a new track eksplore to bring a map and GPS is highly recommended. GPS is useful to record our journey, so if we will return to the track we do not bother to ask or to recall. Or if we lost we would be led back to the original track. GPS also tells us the average cycling speed (average speed), maximum speed in the derivative (max speed), time to move (moving time), distance (Odo-meter), quiet time / rest (stop time), the contour of the track, height of land from the sea surface and so on
