The Chain Gang Bikes
The Types of Bicycles We Use
It's important for us to feel that we offer a good level of equipment, and naturally that starts with the bikes we use.
We offer both hybrid bikes and road bikes. To understand the difference, it's useful to borrow the French names. The French for a mountain bike is a 'vélo tous terrains', or a bike for all terrains. A road bike is a 'vélo de course', a race bike. Our hybrids are called 'vélos tous chemins' in French, bikes for all tracks. And that sums up what a hybrid bike does. It's faster and easier than a mountain bike on a road, and is perfectly capable of coping with tracks, no matter how rough.
We don't have any mountain bikes in our fleet. We don't go anywhere that's rough enough to need one, and for cycling on roads they're frankly too much like hard work.
When cycling, helmets are not obligatory, but we do recommend them. We suggest you bring your own to guarantee comfort and correct fit, but we have a large selection of helmets, and you are invited to help yourself at the start of the cycling holiday.
For more details about our bikes, have a look at :
- Our Hybrid Bikes
- and our Road Bikes