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Deputy Editor Tara Seplavy and Senior Test Editor Dan Chabanov discuss new Zwift updates, bar tape—the best low-cost upgrade—and topping off tubeless sealant.
Handlebar: a lever attached, usually using an intermediary stem, to the steerer tube of the fork. Allows steering and provides a point of attachment for controls and accessories; Handlebar plug: see Bar plugs; Handlebar tape: a tape wound around dropped handlebars so as to provide padding and grip, usually cork or cloth, sometimes foam rubber
Unlike cyclocross bikes, which are designed exclusively for 700c wheels and a maximum tyre width of around 33 mm (still wider than a typical racing bike tyre of 28 mm), gravel bikes are designed to fit much wider 700c tyres, often around 40 mm but sometimes up to 45–50 mm. [6] [7] Mountain bikes run wider tyres still. Some gravel bikes are ...
The bicycles that cyclists use in gravel races and gravel rides can vary widely (can also be mountain bikes, cyclo-cross bicycles or racing bicycles with wider tires, depending on the conditions). However, since the 2010s, a dedicated type of bicycle is marketed as gravel bike to cover the new cycling discipline.
Three wheels are used when the bike is in a stroller configuration, and two wheels are used when it is in a bike configuration with the cargo in front of the cyclist. This cargo bike can carry up to 100 lbs (45.4 kg). [7] The stroller bike won the Gold Award at the Eurobike exhibition in 2018 as a special-purpose bike. [8]
A bicycle handlebar [1] is the steering control for bicycles. It is the equivalent of a tiller for vehicles and vessels, as it is most often directly mechanically linked to a pivoting front wheel via a stem which in turn attaches it to the fork .