Road bikes are built for speed and efficiency on paved or gravel roads. You might think, since you can ride any bicycle on the road, isn’t every bicycle a road bicycle? Yes. It’s almost like that. You can indeed ride any bicycle on the road, but real road bicycles have specific design features that allow them to perform well on the road and distinguish them from other types of bicycles.

Bend
One of the features is the handlebar, which is called the bend. This downward dive design provides great flexibility, such as the position of the hands and the position of the body. This is great for long-distance riding, because you can change positions to make yourself more comfortable and faster.

Narrow tire
Previous road bikes used narrow tires, but more modern road bikes use narrow tires ranging from 25mm to 45mm thick tires, which can be ridden on roads that can only be described as “road”.

Special material
Carbon fiber is a composite material that allows bicycle designers to flexibly create lightweight and efficient structures that can be made into any imaginable shape, thereby further improving aerodynamic characteristics or riding quality. This means that carbon fiber bicycles are generally lighter and have less impact on performance quality. However, carbon fiber bicycles require many sophisticated processes to manufacture, and are often more expensive than aluminum alloy bicycles.
Aluminum alloy is another good frame material. Although the performance is first-rate, aluminum alloy bicycles are more cost-effective. In the past, aluminum alloy bicycles have low configuration due to poor riding conditions, but modern aluminum alloy bicycles are significantly more advanced. Although they are not expensive, they have certain carbon fiber performance characteristics.