Tips | Servicing a Bike | Buying a Bicycle | Cycling Safety Cycling can be the ideal way of improving fitness and should be enjoyable from the very first turn of the pedals. The most important aspect is to purchase a bike that meets your needs now and to ensure that the bike is the right size and that your positioning is correct. After all, you would not buy a pair of shoes that do not fit your feet and then expect to walk kilometres after kilometres. This is why the best cyclists in the world, that not only seek comfort but the ideal position to maximise performance. Virtually 80% of all professional cyclists in the peleton of Europe are fitted by the bikefitting system offered at Bates Bikes. It is a system that originated in Holland after decades of research and has a wonderful success rate. For Bates Bikes, the biggest concern is the self-proclaimed gurus of the cycling world that believe that their system is the best without any supporting evidence. If you intend to be relatively serious about your cycling then there is only one system and that is the Bikefitting system. For further details you can contact www.bikefitting.com For those people that are interested in taking the next step into to cycle racing, Bates Bikes can guide you into the most famous cycling club in Australia – the local club St. George Cycle Club. The club has already the most enviable record in the history of Australian cycling and at the most recent Olympic Games boasted another four Olympians, including dual Olympic champion Graeme Brown, Olympic gold medallist Steve Wooldridge and two more Olympians, Ben Kersten and Matt White. Phill Bates AM, the long standing President of St. George, is available most days of the week to give optimum help and support.
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