Colnago have been making bikes since the 1950’s and was started by a man called Ernesto Colnago. They use frames made from carbon fibre and titanium making them extremely light and easy to ride. The company and their bikes have helped 2,500 professional bike racers to successful wins worldwide. Recently colnago have gone into partnership with Ferrari and have made one of their best bikes to date called the CF7.

Kinesis are a company who design, make and test their own bikes. They want to design and sell bikes that are unique and affordable. They use fantastic tubing in light weight and high performance frames and have 3 different types of bikes to choose from; the maxlight, crosslight and racelight. Their cross light bikes are very popular with professional riders and is their most successful type of bike. Kinesis also have some of the most advanced research and frame testing facilities available.

There are two things that you can get out of good and quality road bikes. These are pleasure and fitness. And often times, you can merge the two for a healthy and fun biking trip.

A road bike is ideal for a general bicycling around the town or city. You can also ride it for a bit of long distance cycling. One way to enjoy bicycling is to gather a group of your friends and go on a biking trip either just within your location or go on a vacation where you can bike in a more picturesque surrounding or more challenging road. This of course depends on your level of proficiency with a bike.

For fitness on the other hand, a road bike is ideal as a form of a daily aerobic exercise. Road bikes are highly durable bicycles often used by professional cyclists whenever they practice to improve their speed and endurance. Of course you don’t have to be a professional cyclist to reap the health benefits of using a road bike.

So if you want to have fun while keeping you fit and healthy at the same time, consider road bikes and you will surely find yourself on the road more often.

Bicycles have always been popular because of its ability to get easy transportation even without the expensive investment for a car and the continuous cash outlay for gasoline. It has been around as early as the 15th hundreds when individuals needed a way to get around small geographic locations and continues up to today as one of the most popular methods for transportation. Also, bicycles have gained recent popularity because of the gaining interest of environmental awareness of global warming because it is one form of transportation where there is absolutely no form of pollution being generated. And although bicycles require some form of effort in order to run, it still maintains such popularity today.

A derivative of the bicycle is the mountain bike, designed for going up mountains, entering dirt trails, or travelling in unpaid environments. Traditional bicycles have not been designed for such rough terrain and this is where the mountain bike comes in. Today, mountain bikes have become as much as a hobby as a tool for transportation and looking at the street or any other location, one would see that mountain bikes have gained popularity in the masses.

Two of the most popular brands of mountain bikes are made by Scott USA and Orbea. Scott is a Swiss company that produces and experts in the manufacturing of bicycles and other sportswear. As early as 1958, an engineer skier invented a ski pole which was different from the traditional bamboo or steel used by skiers because it was made of aluminium. After the success of such a product, in 1970, the first protection goggles where made by the company and it was in 1986 when its first mountain bike was produced. The company is popular around the mountain biking community because it continues to produce high-quality mountain bikes and was the first one to integrate the suspended for mechanism in the bicycles which eventually led to the company making the first fully suspended mountain bike. In 2002, it was one of their bikes which won the Tour de France. Although the name implies that the company focuses its market in the United States, it is in fact mainly addressing the mountain bike community in Europe although it remains a large presence in mountain bike manufacturing in the United States.

Orbea, on the other hand, is another bicycle manufacturer which is based in Spain and started out, interestingly, as a gunmaker, and shifted only its business to the production of racing bicycles in 1930. What makes the company so popular in mountain biking circles is that it produces a range of high and carbon fiber designs. This implies that the mountain bikes which the company produces are indeed durable and high quality in nature because of the material used in the production process. It is also popular for its made-to-order service which means that consumers and future customers choose a frame for the bicycle and also hand pick which of the other products they would integrate into their bikes.

Only recently, the bike made by the company was written by Julien Absalon and got the gold medal for cycling in the 2008 Olympics further boosting its popularity.