Although I also like sports and mountain climbing, I watched my colleagues riding road bikes coolly to and from work a few years ago, and even saw cycling enthusiasts riding mountain bikes a few years ago. While I was on the Sichuan-Tibet Line, I was slightly shocked, but I would never have thought that one day I would join the ranks of cyclists.

Due to the epidemic control, I basically stayed at home from mid-March. By mid-May, it was finally just a weekend after the community was unblocked. Seeing that the weather was very good, I went out on a whim to find a place. Country road. As soon as I step into the shade of the trees, I immediately feel that I have regained the calm and joyful feeling of hiking in the natural mountains and fields in the past. Although I walked all afternoon before returning home, I still felt that I still had something to say. I suddenly thought: In this semi-lockdown state where the entertainment hall is closed and all public transportation is suspended, in such a place, there are actually many beautiful mountain scenery around it. , isn’t what I really need a mountain bike that allows me to ride all over the place?

At present, some of the mainstream mountain bike brands at home and abroad are:

Among them, Giant, Merida, Xide Sheng, Bond Fujita, UCC, etc., with better reputations, especially the first two This brand has excellent quality, a large number of stores, and many offline stores. I chose Merida, which I think is more cost-effective under 5,000 yuan.

In addition, several old domestic brands such as Forever, Phoenix and Feige have a relatively poor reputation (their trademarks are not shown in the picture).

Referring to online information, it is recommended to buy commuter bikes online (more cost-effective and easy to assemble), while it is recommended to buy sports bikes in offline stores. The benefits are as follows:

In addition to the Check nearby offline store information from Merida’s official website. It is also recommended to check reviews of each store from apps such as Dianping. After seeing the bad reviews of the recent Merida store, I decided to choose another store 14 kilometers away that had excellent reviews~

If you want to use your car well, you have to understand the car more deeply, and If you want to have a deeper understanding of bikes, you must first familiarize yourself with the structure of mountain bikes. Otherwise, you won’t know what part of the mountain bike you are talking about when you listen to others talking about bikes, and you won’t know how to describe the problem when you ask someone about bikes.

Although there are 24 combinations, the recommended rules are as follows:

As the saying goes, whether a mule or a horse, it has to go out and run around. No matter how much theory you learn, it will basically be useless if you don’t practice it. It's all for nothing.

It happens to be a three-day holiday for the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a great opportunity to try riding a longer distance ~

After online reference, I purchased some equipment and accessories in advance:

Check the map and select I drove to a scenic spot thirty-five kilometers away (I had driven there with my friends before and thought it was very nice). Although the highest temperature forecast for that day was 37 degrees, it couldn’t stop me from being excited to try it. I packed up and set off~

Although I thought I had a thorough understanding of the shifting combinations before riding, I realized it was not that simple when I actually rode. In different road conditions, when and how to switch may make me confused. It is true that "practice only makes true knowledge". Here is a summary: