Do It Yourself

despite the fact that they may not look it of course!

Riding road bikes can take a lot out of an athlete, such as water leading to dehydration. Nevertheless, the misconception that cycling without eating will lead to your body drawing on the undesirable fat that can be found all around your pot-belly, and thus minimizing the size of it, is also apparently unproven. This is rather basic to fully understand. If road bikes are used for workout before breakfast every day, the road biker will at some stage in the course of the day intake calories equal to that lost when doing exercises without nutrition.

Yet another myth is that when riding road bikes pumping up the tyres to be very hard will make the bicycle go swifter (presumably by reducing the friction between road and tyre). Apparently, through an experiment conducted by Dr Timothy Ryschon when at the University of Texas, it was identified that there was very little variation between tyres that are pumped to the correct or normal pressure and those that were over inflated to make them very hard, rendering the rewards of this advice as minimal.