Shoe Repair – Accessorize Your Mountain Bike
Accessorize Your Mountain Bike
You’ve decided to take up the exciting and challenging sport of mountain biking. Unlike casual biking, you need much more than just a helmet to ensure that you have a safe ride as you hit the trails.
Mountain biking is such a popular sport that there is now a vast range of accessories for both men and women. Make sure you do a bit of research on each item you want to purchase to make sure you buy the best quality for the amount of money you want to spend.
Bike helmet
We may be listing the bike helmet as an ‘accessory’ but it really isn’t. It is a necessary piece of equipment. In mountain biking, it is not a question of if you’re going to fall, it’s a question of when. And when you take a header over your handlebars, having a secure helmet on your head could well save your life. Although you can buy most accessories second hand if you so desire, the bike helmet is something that you want to buy brand-new, and make sure that it fits your head properly. And if you do have an accident in which any damage occurs to the helmet, the wisdom is that you should purchase another one. One accident per helmet – that’s the rule.
Eye protection
Have you ever been riding on the road and been passed by a car that sends up a spurt of gravel at you? If any of that gets into your eyes, you have to stop immediately to clear your vision. If you’re on a trail heading downhill at a breakneck pace, and a baleful bee takes that opportunity to hit you in the eye, the following seconds could end up being very uncomfortable. Glasses or sunglasses are one solution, but the best method is to wear goggles. Whatever you get, make sure that lenses are non-breakable.
Hydration system
It’s common sense to bring a water bottle with you when you go out on a trail ride. It’s very easy to get dehydrated which brings your energy right down. However, in order to drink from your water bottle you have to take your hand off one of the handles, and there are sometimes when you don’t want to do that. A hydration backpack is a good solution. As a backpack you can put all kinds of necessary inside it, and when you need a drink you just reach over with your mouth to the bite valve and take a sip.
Mountain bike shorts
These days bike saddles are a lot more comfortable than they used to be. There are saddles made especially for women as well a
1000
s men, and you can purchase gel-filled saddles that make the hours you spend on your bike a bit more comfortable. But you’ll also want padded bike underwear and padded bike shorts, just for extra comfort.
Mountain bike gloves
If you fall off your bike (or should that be, when), your hands will probably be the first thing to hit the ground – either a paved road, a graveled road, dirt, mud, bushes…all sorts of hazards that can rip up your hands unless they’re properly protected. Gloves serve another purpose as well, of course. If you’re heading down the trail your hands will get sweaty which could cause problems keeping your hands on your bike grips. Wearing gloves eliminates that problem.
Mountain biking shoes
These days there’s a shoe made for every sport under the sun, including that of mountain biking. The main difference in mountain bike shoes is the type of sole – designed for the different types of pedals out there: with clips or clipless. The clipless type of pedal requires that your shoes be fitted with special cleats. The shoes need to be durable and comfortable.
Trail repair kit
Regardless of what type of biking you do, it always makes sense to carry a bicycle repair kit with you. However, you can ‘get away’ with not carrying one if you ride on the streets of your city. You’ll just be a phone call away from someone who can come and help you if you have a flat, after all. It’s not that easy if you’re out in the woods and your cell phone doesn’t work. Always have a a multi-tool designed for bike repair, tire levers, and a patch kit for fixing flat tires. However, having a repair kit will do you little good if you don’t know how to use the tools! So make sure that after you purchase your kit you familiarize with each of the tools and how to use them! It’s easy once you know how.
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Next week, Hands of Compassion (hocm.info) is blessing Casa de Salvacion by sending a container load of Goods to be distributed to the poor in Guatemala. And we as Children of Christ rejoice at the opportunity to put in the hands of those who need our help things that if we did not recycle would most probably end up in a dumpster, or somewhere in a landfill in Canada.
This is just one of many efforts we make, as we scratch and scrape where we should be gathering plenty. Because in spite of the supposedly bad economy, we walk around our city on garbage day, and it fills us with sadness to see how wasteful we are how carelessly we act with the provisions God has put in our hands, and how in the midst of that wastefulness, we prefer to toss things away and convert them into an additional problem to society instead of recycling them, extending their lives and giving them to someone willing to put them to good use for someone else.
The third world Countries lack everything, and when we put in the trash something useless to us, something we would say there is no way we can get extra life out of, there is someone in Haiti or Guatemala or sometimes even in our own backyard wishing to have that same thing and not being able to.
Third world countries have become experts at recycling, they have learned to extend the useful life out of practically everything, because not having the funds to purchase new they have learned to repair, to patch things up, and to make the old new again.
Last week I was in a rural part of Mexico, and I was wearing my favorite pair of walking shoes; they are perfectly wearable practically new, but somehow one of them had a torn on a corner, and except because I love those shoes, as far as I was concerned they were ready for the dumpster. While walking on a plaza in one of the streets of San Antonio in the state of Hidalgo, I noticed a small string hanging out of a corner on the same shoe that was torn, so I carelessly pulled it. All of a sudden the whole side of the shoe came apart; the string became a long peace of cord which was literally holding the shoe together. I saw with disappointment how it just opened up and made it impossible to walk; almost in tears I pointed the problem to one of the local pastors walking with us, to which He smiled and said; No problem, let us take care of it.
I smiled back at him as I remembered where I came from, how my own uncle was a shoe repair man, and how he would take any worn up tattered shoe and turn it to new with just a few patches and replacements.
We drove to a narrow street filled with all sort of tinkering stores, and without getting out of the car the Pastor took my shoe and handed it over to one of the tinkerers, asked how much and how long would it take to fix it and then he drove away leaving my broken shoe behind, when we returned fifteen minutes later the problem had disappeared, the shoe looked brand new again, in fact it looked even better than it was originally, and it only took the equivalent of one dollar and twenty cents and a brief detour on our way to accomplish that extraordinary feat.
I am ashamed to say that I have thrown away, computers, televisions, clothing, furniture, even jewelry at times, which were just “broken’ our friend Maria in the Dominican Republic has been using for two and a half years a DVD player we gave her because it would not turn on; she got it repaired with the equivalent of one dollar and fifty cents..
Meanwhile we have developed a great problem out of finding a solution to the disposal of thousands of tons of garbage which gets produced every day by our consumption hungry lifestyle. It costs billions of dollars a year to process the mountains of waste we continuously produce while billions of people go without food weeks at a time in other parts of the planet.
Food alone is one of the largest generators of waste in our society. According to a large research organization, in the U.S. alone enough food gets thrown in the garbage every day to be able to feed a country of five million for a whole year, and this goes on every single day of the year.
We complain about our economy and how bad we have it and yet we can afford to produce such amount of waste.
According to the World Health Organization, we produce enough food to feed every person in the planet without ever running out, yet the bulk of this food is consumed by less than twenty countries in the planet.
The Bible teaches us that giving bring blessings to our lives (Acts 20:35, Deut 15:7) and when we look at things out of the abundance of our hearts, we will discover myriads of things we don’t use or need, things we can live without things we would not miss.
We can also look at the way we use food at home or at restaurants and spare a portion of what we are spending on grocery to bring it to the poor through one of the many available charities.
Most charities would not take the stuff that you consider useless, but there are still many who would; we are one of them, and we are always ready to send those items to places where they can be repaired and reused by the less fortunate.
By giving a bit of yourself to someone in need, you are doing a lot for yourself and for the whole planet, and furthermore, it is an act of obedience to God’s commandments.
Casa de Salvacion works in partnership hundreds of churches in ten countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean, bringing hope to the poor communities of the Hispanic world.
You have in your hands the opportunity to increase your treasures in heaven by cleaning up your closed, your garage, your food cabinet, and a portion of your wallet. You can reach us at casadesalvacion.com, or you can contact any charity of your preference; what is important is that starting today you make a decision to eliminate the waste in your life, to reduce the amount of stuff that goes on the curb and to let it be a blessing to you and to others.
May the Lord of Hope Bring encouragement to your heart, and may he also bring through you a fresh breeze of Hope to the Billions that will go another day without food or shelter.
Rev. Jose A. Luna
A servant of Christ Jesus
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