Maintaining your new Bicycle and Cycling Lifestyle - The 2nd Installment

An article about bicycle maintenance came, we all got very motivated to keep up with our bicycle maintenance, and now we have to see if people are just as enthusiastic about the 2nd installment on bicycle maintenance.

What's in store for this part?

For our second installment of tips for maintaining your new bicycle, we are going to cover another three areas that help you to keep your bicycle in good order and in it's best working condition.

Good Cycling Accessories
If you put good cycling accessories on your bicycle, you're more likely to want to take care of them. It's a case of being a cyclist who knows exactly what he has on his bike, the difference they make, and how they feel when they're properly cared for compared to when they are left to go into disrepair.

This is why in our online bicycle shop, our cycling accessories category is built on quality, rather than quantity and lowest pricing.
We may not have the lowest prices of all cycling accessories, but of the brands we stock, we aim to give you the best prices for them.

Good Home Mechanic Skills
 Learning to be the best bike mechanic in the world isn't worth it unless you're being paid for it. However, being the best mechanic in your club is always a benefit.

If you want to learn good bicycle maintenance then learn what you can and can't do with a bike. Doing this, you know how much you can fix on a bike yourself, and how much you need to go to your local bike shop mechanic

The best way to learn it, is by regularly taking parts off your bike, servicing them, cleaning them, and putting them back on.
Eventually you will learn the subtle differences between a well cared for bike and a bike that has been ridden for a while without maintenance.

Then you will be able to notice when things aren't right on your bicycle, and then you know when to service and repair your bike yourself.

A love for your bike
If you learn to love your bike, you will learn to love how your bicycle looks and feels.

By taking a cyclists pride in your bicycle, you will always want it to look good and always want it to ride at its best performance.
If you don't care too much about your bicycle, or if it's one that you haven't invested a lot of time or money into, then in our experience we haven't cared for it as much.

But on the bikes where we've researched them carefully, saved up for it, waited what seemed like for ever for the bicycle to be delivered, we've cared for that bicycle from day 1 and never stopped.
So get to know your bicycle, how it handles compared to other bikes, the sounds it makes and doesn't make, so then eventually when things change, you will notice it and want it to go back to how it originally handled when you cycled it.

You can always take a look at our online bicycle shop to see what we have available and you might find some great cycling gear to help you love cycling even more.