Present and future of Bike

The great invention of the bicycle sport and transport; engine and passenger, all in one.
Invented in the nineteenth century, the bicycle is to see a diversion, a means of transportation and a means to exercise ourselves.

It allows us to transport us from one place to another without additional expense, without permits or insurance, easily and conveniently.

The sport bike and transportation

Executive cycling

Very useful in the urban environment at the time to make short or long to different places everyday people have to travel distances. The easy parking and great capacity to access almost anywhere, making it the ideal place to get around the corners of the small and large city environment.

Besides having a great facility to transport it in the car, you can have it at any time.

Besides being a great means of transportation, we can not forget performing exercises, then cycling also means an excellent sport, which the conjugation of these two activities are presented at the same time, make this instrument, a creations more useful and complete man.

But not the whole story was told with bicycles as have them today, such achievement fashion excellent bikes which feature people today are the result of a long historical process, which is described briefly.

They according to the above the first appearances of the bikes were in the ancient Chinese, Egyptian and Aztec civilizations.

City bikes

The bicycle as transportation

Initially it was a two wheeled contraptions compounds linked by a wooden bar.

Leonardo da Vinci sketches performed where a bicycle with chain drive pedals and distinguished.

By 1893 the first known similarly as at present, by Kirkpatrick Macmillan bike, which gave way to bicycles that are currently known are built.

Bicycles began to improve in those areas that did not offer much comfort, thanks to the bike started taking as a means of large scale production by different companies that helped improve aspects of it, like comfort, driveability and adaptation to the different applications that you could give the bicycle.

The sport bike and transportation

Since that first bike from the late nineteenth century, radicals porcos changes have been made to the base structure. But those other elements that have been great revolution in both design and functionality.
They have perfected the materials currently abounds carbon fiber as aluminum alloy or Kevlar.
They have improved the wheel, which at present are very light and strong, and the exchange system, which at first did not exist and now the number of gears increases is constant year after year.
Pedals have toe clips and straps or the remover to pass toeclips modern clipless pedals where the creek safely shoe inserts.
The saddles have decreased in size to the point that it is the ischium hipbone the one who really relies on it.
In the handlebars have diversified their shape depending on the mode to practice, and carbon is the perfect material to give the exact point of strength and lightness.

Without doubt, the number of elements to transform is not over yet.
No doubt in the future lose the chain and the changes that are internal and more integrated with the set, which will give better aerodynamics.
And no doubt that the tires will also improve, both in quality and performance, avoiding the annoying pricks.

This is roughly the past, present and future of our friend the bicycle as sport and transport.