How To Work Gears On A Bike

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How to work gears on a bike. Along with your brakes shifting your gears is one of the fundamental mechanical functions of your bike. I ve just got a bike to ride to and from work in york and been riding it for about a month now. How to shift gears on a bike shifting 101. Instead a gearbox is integrated directly into the frame with the weight.

Many current mountain bikes have 10 gears operated by both hands with the right hand performing most of the incremental shifting to change the level of tension to either deliver more speed or. Play around with the gears. Bikes generally have 1 3 18 21 24 or 27 speeds. You can think of gears as the same thing as speeds a bike with 18 gears is an 18 speed bike.

Learning how to shift may seem basic but gearing practice and shifting efficiently is something that even veteran riders can work on. If you have one gear in the front and seven gears in the back your bike has 1 7 7 gears. First let s get our terms straight so we re on the same page. They are the mechanical wonders that will allow you to accelerate to wind whistling speed along flat smooth roads or power your way up a steep.

This sort of bike is called a single speed bike. I get about but i don t understand how other people leisurely cycle past so much quicker and disappear into the distance. A bike with 30 or more gears is not an indication of a machine designed to break the land speed record any more than a bike with only a single gear assuming similar ratios. Changing gear on your bike is one of the essential cycling skills to master whether you ride a mountain bike a road bike or a commuter bike in fact pretty much any bike you ll have gears.

How and when to use your gears. Consult your bike shop at the time of purchase on how yours work or simply jump on your bike make sure to pedal and push your shifters to get a sense of how they function. 3 gears on the left which i have at 2 and possibly 8 on the right which is at 7.