Bike Types

Depends on if it's a freewheel or a freehub design. For a freewheel you need the appropriate freewheel puller. For a freehub you need a splined lockring tool.

yes

its a fixie bike (fixed gear ) custom designed but not sure what brand

I'm afraid they're just cheap Chinese made bicycles sold at sporting good stores. If you really care to have a good bicycle, hit a bicycle shop.

It's a decent enough bike for a new rider, but not something to brag about. 8-speed rears are a couple of generations old.

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The ones I found on a net search already had 26" tires, so yes.

Keep in mind though that there are several different 26" sizes, and they're not compatible.

Have a look at the sidewalls of the current tires for a size designation in millimeters.

Should be 559xsomething. 559 is the diameter, and the most important number. The "something" is the width.Then buy tires that are 559 in diameter, and something like 47-54 mm wide.

Well, both United and Blackeye have a full line of bikes. Blackeye comes in cheaper with their Mack at only $190. United's start at $290 with their Recruit RN1. For $10 more, you can get a bike from Blackeye that's equivalent component wise, but has a cromoly top and downtube and cromoly fork steerer (the United Recruit is all hi-tensile steel). The Blackeye is also slightly longer in the front for taller riders.

If you're comparing top of the line models, then you're putting the $500 Blackeye Killarado up against the $520 United Supreme SU2. Both are VERY similar in build quality and specs and both come with a 21" long top tube. The Blackeye comes with smaller frame size options for smaller riders, but if you need the longer 21" frame, I'd still say go with the Blackeye and save yourself $20.

IT is on the unerneath of the main Pedal gear assembly. Starts with a letter,then 6 numeric digits. there is a 4 digit numeric stamp as well! Ghosthost47@yahoo.com

As long as the brake is strong enough to lock the wheel, you can skid with any brake design.

Air fille bicycle tires were invented by John Dunlop.

Good bikes are made in different frame sizes. And dedicated riders often chainge the gearing ratio by replacing either the sprocket or the driver with one with another tooth count than it came with.

These things influence chain length, so you see that no one can tell how many links your chain should be.

Chains are just about Always bought a Little long, then cut to length on the bike. Faster than counting links. Chain breakers aren't expensive. Either have a shop fit the chain when you buy it, or get a chain breaker (and a quicklink) and fit it yourself.

Do note that chain, driver and sprocket wear together, but usually the chain wears the fastest.

So sticking a new chain on old sprockets can often lead to the chain skipping and slipping.

If you don't know how to measure a chain for wear, better replace aat least chain and driver at the same time.

If it truly is a vintage bike - don't.

Whatever value it has will disappear when you hack it up.

But If you insist:

Start with finding out what kind of dropouts you have.

Only bikes with (semi) horizontal rear dropouts are good fixie candidates.

Next check your rear OLD - Over Locknut Distance. Basically the width of your rear hub, the distance between the rear dropouts.

Then go shopping for a fixie rear wheel with the same OLD.

Install fixie wheel. Check what your chainline looks like.

If you have a double crank, you might get a better (=more parallel with the plane of the frame) If you use the inner chainring.

If that doesn't give a tall enough gear you might have to shift the rings around. Or swap to a Single-Speed crankset and a shorter Bottom Bracket.

Once happy with that, fit chain and ride.

in chain reaction...http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=48604

Bicycles rarely become valuable collectibles. Your best bet is to look for similar bikes on ebay, craigslist and suchlike to find out what they are selling for.

There's no specific name for bikes for disabled people, if nothing else different disabilities would need different different kinds of adaptations to make it possible for them to ride. Foot/ lower leg amputees can ride bikes with very little changes. Hand/arm amputees require a bit more to get brakes/shifters to work.

Then there are the different versions of trikes which would be useful if you have problems balancing. These can be both uprights and recumbents(=seated)

But able-bodied people ride those too, for various reasons, so they're not considered as bikes for disabled.

Probably not much, as bike rarely becomes collectibles. Your best bet is to look for similar bikes on eBay and craigslist and see what they're selling for there.

http://download.dfxi.com/supportdocs/OM/Schwinn/SCH_DX900_OM_web.pdf

Blue Max was a bicycle brand made for the German /European market by BMX products.

However, an unknown number were sold in the US market.

BMX products was the orginal company behind Mongoose.

BMX Museum has pictures of several examples on their site.

Max force was a competing brand.

That's like asking how safe are minivans. A well built, well maintained and sensibly used tandem bike don't come with any special risks.

Ride it like a fool, ignore the upkeep, and a tandem - just like any vehicle - can bea death trap.

Usually Gym bike means stationary exercise bike, what you can use to cycling in a indoor home or gym environment. You can do cycling in indoor without going anywhere. Basically, it is a fixed bike on a frame.

Most bike parts are generic, and built to certain standards. As long as you're able to figure out which standard your bike is you can get parts for them from pretty much any bicycle shop.

The bikes are made by/for a company called HM bikes.

you have know alot about silver fox. Some of there bikes are very cheap! but some of them can be quite descent. So they can be good if you get the right bike.