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Summary: City bicycles are great for basic transportation, but some features such as thorn-resistant tires and internal gear drive trains make the morning commute much easier. Find a bike with a coat guard and headlights to ride with style like the bicycle specialist in this free video on bike ownership.

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By Travis Martin & Brad Woods
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Travis Martin is manager of the Mad Dog Cycles in Provo, Utah. Mad Dog Cycles has been in business more than 12 years, and Martin has been in the bicycle business for more than 20....read more

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"Hi, this is Brad Woods with Mad Dog Cycles dot com, I'm here at the Orem store, and we're talking today about city bikes and basic transportation bikes. You can use almost any bike for transportation, but there are certain features on bicycles that you can get today to make things a lot easier, and a lot more maintenance free. One of those features is thorn resistant tires. But another one, is the way that the bike is actually moved around. The gear system. this particular bike, and this one here, they have an internally gear drive train. So no derailleurs that also means that they're able to have a chain guard. Like is on here. Back side of the bike on both of these. And that allows you to not have greasy pant legs. Most of them have some type of cargo carrying capacity. In this case a rack. In this case a basket. Some of them actually come with some other really ice features. Generally speaking they'll some with fenders, such as this, and this particular bike, which is a European bike, also comes with what's known as a coat guard or a skirt guard. That keeps your coat or your dress from getting dirty. Also we have generators on the front that power your headlight and tail light, and we have integrated locks. We have lots of things that enable you to get around town conveniently and easily, come and see us."

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