Cycling Role-Play | World's First | Best Advice for Beginners | Which Cycle to Buy MTB vs Hybrid

Please treat this video as one to create awareness among general public on how to buy their first cycle. The MTB and Hybrid intended in this video are entry level cycles which common man usually prefer as their first buy usually below 25,000/-. In this video we take a totally unconventional approach to differentiate 3 type of cycles. This video would throw light on making informed decisions for buying the right type of bike based on your purpose. Road Bike As the name suggests, road bikes are designed to ride on the road. Can’t all bikes ride on the road, you wonder? They absolutely can. But road bikes are optimised to make road cycling as efficient as possible, and because of that they’d perform terribly on a mountain dirt track. Defining characteristics: A lightweight frame, skinny tyres, drop handlebars (those are handlebars which curve back down underneath themselves) and a high gear ratio (i.e. The gears are set up to favour the ones that help you go really fast, if your legs and lungs are up to it.) Get a road bike if: You want fast, efficient cycling on tarmac roads for commuting, competing, or for fun. Don’t get a road bike if: You want to take it off the road. Skinny tyres means you won’t really be able to use a road bike on anything other than tarmac. Icy roads can also be a problem for road bikes. MTB Mountain bikes are designed to go on mountains or on off-road trails, which means they’re chunkier, have knobbly tyres on them, and a frame geometry which makes them better suited for seriously uneven terrain. Defining characteristics: Wide, knobbly tyres for traction, and a wide range of gears to help you get up and over mountains or across fields. Some bikes have front suspension but are rigid at the back (‘hardtail’), and some have front and rear suspension for cushioning jumps and drops (‘full suspension’ or ‘full sus’). Others have neither. Here’s our Guide to full suspension vs hardtail. Get a mountain bike if: You want to go mountain biking or mainly off road. Don’t get a mountain bike if: You want to go fast on tarmac roads, cycle long distances, or mostly knock about town. Hybrid Cycles Hybrid bikes, or commuter bikes as they’re also known, are essentially a mixture between road bikes and mountain bikes. They give you the versatility to do a bit of everything. What you sacrifice in terms of speciality, you gain by being able to do what you want, when you want. Defining characteristics: Unlike cross/cyclocross bikes (below), hybrid bikes have flat handlebars instead of drop handlebars. Some models have front suspension to cushion bumps in the road or on the track, and others don’t. They’re designed with versatility and comfort in mind, so they have the comfortable geometry of mountain bikes but with slicker, narrower tyres. The tyres can be changed for super knobbly tyres if you want to do a bit of off-roading, or slicker tyres if you’re commuting on tarmac, or something in between. Get a hybrid/commuter bike if: Your main use for the bike will be commuting and/or knocking about town, as well as occasionally going off road or mountain biking. Don’t get a hybrid/commuter bike if: You want to go full lycra and ride as fast as possible on roads, or tear down mountain bike trails as dexterously as possible. Follow us on YouTube : /channel/UC7xsY9ni8ByoGlpF-rLwZ0A Follow us on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/kcyclopedia/ Follow us on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/am_kcyclopedia?r=nametag Follow us on Strava: https://www.strava.com/clubs/kcyclopedia?utm_source=com.whatsapp&utm_medium=referral Follow us on Blogger: https://kcyclopedia.blogspot.com/?m=1 #roleplay #cycling #malayalam

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