Alastair Hamilton

About Alastair Hamilton

Alastair Hamilton writes regularly technical articles on road and mountain bikes to some online bike magazines. Find interesting reviews on bicycle wheels at http://www.bike-cycling-reviews.com/bike-parts/bicycle-wheels.html and about rims, to move the wheels at http://www.bike-cycling-reviews.com/bike-parts/bicycle-rims.html.

Learning About Mountain Bikes

At this article you will read what mountain biking is as well as how to get the information on various kinds of mountain bikes.The most commonly used Mountain Bikes are:Downhill Bikes:Most prominently used for competition in which one goes down the...
Date Posted: November 10, 2006

Learning More About Lowrider Bikes

Article that tells about the main attraction of Lowrider bikes, with the new trends in low riders, also related to Cruiser or Beach Cruiser style bikes.A low rider bike is also known as chopper bicycle and is a highly customized bike.
Date Posted: November 07, 2006

Ask Yourself These Questions When Shopping For Cycling Jerseys

Runners can run in nearly any clothing as long as they have running shoes, but bicyclists practically require the highly specialized apparel of their sport.Even casual bike riders will benefit hugely in comfort, speed, safety and satisfaction if...
Date Posted: April 20, 2006

Customizing Your Bicycle Rims

Barring a serious crash or the most frequent bike accident of all—entering the garage with a bicycle on your car roof rack—your bicycle rims will probably last as long as you can stand riding the same old bike.
Date Posted: March 24, 2006

Getting The Right Bicycle Seat

It takes only one ride on the wrong bicycle seat to demonstrate irrefutably that a good bicycle seat is paramount to regular bicycle riding.Even the shortest, smoothest ride can be painful and joyless if your bicycle has a bad seat on it.What...
Date Posted: January 30, 2006

Mountain Bikes Buying Guide

How to choose a mountain bike depends on what you are going to do with it, if all you want your new mountain bike for is going for a nice leisurely ride on the canal path or a ride in the woods with the dog, well you wont need a full suspension...
Date Posted: December 26, 2005

Road Bikes Reviews: The Giro D’italia Is The Italy’s Answer To The Tour De France

The Giro d’Italia has a fine history behind it, like the Tour de France it was started to publicise a newspaper, just like the Tour de France the organisers made the leaders jersey the same colour as the paper, yellow in France from the...
Date Posted: December 06, 2005

The Tour De France, The Worlds Biggest Road Bike Race

The Tour de France is the BIG one; it’s the World cup and the Olympics all in one. It has it all, the high mountains, the wind swept northern planes and the heat of the south.
Date Posted: November 28, 2005

Bicycle Rims And Wheels, Your Bike Cant Go Anywhere Without Them

The first bicycle wheels were from a horse drawn cart, made of wood with a metal band round the bicycle rim, very hard and very uncomfortable to ride. Then a man called Dunlop (Scottish) invented the pneumatic tire, this along with Macadam (another...
Date Posted: November 07, 2005