Video: How to Set Up Your Road Bike for Racing

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Set up your road bike for racing by purchasing better tires to increase performance. Prepare your road bike for racing with tips from a bike mechanic in this free video on bicycles.

- How to Set Up Your Road Bike for Racing
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Hi, this is Jeff from Two Wheeler Dealer, and I'm going to talk with you about how to set up your road bike for racing. Probably one of the biggest upgrades or changes that you can make to the bike to increase its performance, especially in a racing situation, would be to upgrade the wheels. And you've got many different options for wheels. These being probably the most extreme would be a disk rear wheel, it's going to give you perfect aerodynamics for the rear, very minimal drag, set up with a very deep section front wheel, very light weight, very smooth barrings. Probably going to give you the biggest upgrade in performance for racing. Another thing that you can do to increase your racing performance on your bike would be to go in and have a professional custom bike fit done, which we would basically dial in your geometry, your riding position, on the bike as far as changing saddle height, for aft positioning, stem length, and stem height, to give you the optimum power output and efficiency to the pedals. Just resulting in overall comfort on the bike as well as efficiency and speed. And these are a few things that you could do to help set up your bike for racing.

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How to Set Up Your Road Bike for Racing

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