what does a free-ride bike mean?
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freeride...taking drops, dirt jumps, doing things on your bike that require plenty of suspension.\n\nif you want a good all around bike for jumps and riding the trails,  go for a xc bike either hardtail or full suspension with around 4-5" of travel in the front and 4-5" of travel in the back (if you go with full suspension). this will give you the best of both worlds.\n\nyou don't want to be lugging a heavy freeride bike to school or out on the trails...the weight and pedal efficancy are two very big reasons you should stay away from a freeride bike if you want to ride trails too.\n\ngood luck!
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Your Bicycle shaped object as people in the KNOW refer to pedal powered two wheelers of that quality level has VALUE as long as it is being ridden..There is someone ,somewhere whose quality of life that bicycle will improve. Try to give it to that persons\n with it working ,or the resourses to make it work (i.e tires tube and a patch kit)\n\n\nANYHOW-The Firenze bicycles were used in promotionial campaigns and have the type of issuses that cause many bike shops to refuse to service them..becuase ,they feel they can not ever make them function to their expectation and saftey standards..here in the greater S.F. Bay area those bicycles were given away by MATHEEWS- top of the hill DALY CITY stereo store ,whose motto for a few years was GeT A STEREO GET A BIKE!! thats where your bike is from..\n\nFirst they had red mens and ladies framed 10 speeds, it was roumered that they had spent nineteen dollars a unit on those -the grey mountain bikes were supposedely 29 bucks..\nAll that being said it- sure beats the heck out of walking, if its more than a few blocks ,and its a better bike than 80% of the people that ride bikes becuase they have no other choice;i.e. china india, get to ever ride-- anyhow..don't put more than twenty or thirty bucks into that bike...
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i can't answer the question for you, because it has different meaning to all of us.. but to give you a hint... if you are free to choose.. can you choose not to...?? can you not be part of the whole play we are playing.. if you can just get out and not play with us.. then you are free.. and free indeed.. if you don't know how to stop playing.. then...wear your helmet and hold your stick tight baby.. because it is a pumpy ride...
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Gratis versus Libre is the distinction between no cost and freedom, a distinction not made by the word free in the English language.\n\nIn hacker slang, another common term for gratis is free as in beer. Free as in beer refers to things which are available at no monetary cost (like free beer at a party). It can be contrasted with the expressions free as in speech, free as in freedom, or free as in rights, which refer to something which is free of restrictions, as in the freedom of speech.\n\nSince the advent of the free software movement, these terms have entered frequent use for categorising computer programs according to the licenses and legal fetters that cover them, and both this expression and the term gratis are used to distinguish freeware (gratis software) from free software.
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to me it means to be\nguilt free\ndebt free \nsorrow free and\nfear free
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you can't ride a bike sissy\nlove-g
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Free is no fee ever\n\nContingent fee means there might be a future, incidental charge; or it's free of charge on a trial basis for a set\nperiod and then you pay a set fee.
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Cycling is the perfect blend of sport, entertainment, travel and plain old, everyday transport. That's quite a combination of attributes!\n\nCycling is also one of the best three sports for all round fitness (along with rowing and swimming). No muscles or joints are overstressed, yet everything gets a workout. \n\nCycling is companionable and you can do it till you're old - recently in the Pyrenees two guys overtook me going up the mountains. Later as I struggled into the mountain-top village they were sitting outside a cafe having a beer and smoking merrily! They were well into their 70's and very fit despite the fags.\n\nCycling is accessible to everyone, of every ability and you can race, or potter about, in cities or in the country as you feel.\n\nI love cycling.
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what does it mean to you? it was a quote by Henry David Thoreau and has many meanings depending upon the person reading it. most literally, it means that the rail road depends upon us for it's existence. it rides on us, meaning our work and sweat are what it rides upon.
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Free on rail or free on road
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Also, try the Breezers... Very well thought out bikes for the Commute/Townie thing. The "Townie" bikes are a little more involved than the standard "comfort" bikes, as they have eyelets for racks or are made to mount lights, and other features that're nicer. \n\nSome "comfort" bikes will fall into the "Townie" catagory, and vice versa. And then if you take a road "Sport Tourer" and add a rack, fenders, and maybe some swept back/upright bars, it'd could be considered a "Townie" as well.\n\nIt's sort of a marketing buzzword, sort of a small clasification.  I'd say, find the bike that meets your needs and you are comfortable on, regardless of what it's called.
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Yeah, usually. Its the 'single-speed' riders that like having no brakes.
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Yep, it's a nice, tough, bike.  It doens't have all the flair of the Demo platform, but it's a nice bike.
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you use your hands to pedal...it has different gearings on the cogs, freewheel, and sprocket. it is a funny position to ride in but is very good to strenghthen your arms and your whole upper body. it just takes getting used to.
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I could mean, give someone a ride. It could also mean, 'To lift someone's spirits'.
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That is impossible to answer especially being a used bike. you do not know how much abuse was put on the bike to start, rather it was maintained properly, or if anything has already been replaced. It also depends on how much you ride and the type of riding your doing. The harder you ride the less time you will get out of the bike.
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it means someone was once free to live as they wish. that was along time ago. in a very different place, far far away.