Maintain Your Bike Archive

A Change of Clothes? Cross Country Mountain Biking is For Real!

Mountain biking is basically a sport of biking off-road, most often on rough terrain, typically with specially manufactured mountain bikes fitted with special tires for traction and handling. It can also be called a cross-country mountain biking or off-road dirt bike racing. The sport itself originated in the United States, and quickly became popular in Europe, Australia, Canada and Japan. Many people in those regions …

Don’t Tax Bike Riders

Some countries not only embrace cycling as a preferred mode of transport but they do amazing things to ensure that cyclists commute and ride safely. You can read about Holland where the bike paths are the best in the world. Or Germany, where the cyclists produce electric power. It’s a great alternative to being locked in daily traffic jams on the way to and from …

Fixing broken bikes, mending broken lives

A philanthropist is using bicycles to transform the lives of youngsters by getting them off the streets and into the repair shop This is a story about delinquent kids, ambitious social entrepreneurs and a charismatic multimillionaire. It begins in a corner of London blighted by poverty and despair. It ends there too, but with a glimmer of hope that is on the cusp of turning …