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5/25/2025, 8:13:09 PM
>>2041380
>Ideally you want to use the lower (larger gears on the cassette) with the smaller front chainring and vice versa.
Isn't this cross chaining? Every video says not to do this. To be frank I am scared of moving the right side shifter away from the middle gears just for this reason. I am not very handy and cannot afford repairs, so if I bust the chain, I will cry.
>What gear you're in should be dictated by your cadence (how fast you are turning the pedals) and the effort required to turn them.
For efficiency's sake you always want to in a gear that you can comfortably turn the pedals with spinning to fast or too slow.
This makes sense.
>What gear you're in should be dictated by your cadence (how fast you are turning the pedals) and the effort required to turn them.
For efficiency's sake you always want to in a gear that you can comfortably turn the pedals with spinning to fast or too slow.
I will try and get more practice in today to get a better feel for cadence.
>>2041388
>some people think this is retarded and only use the big ring for flats/ downhill and reserve the small ring for climbing.
Thats what every first-youtube-result GCN video says to do, but also, those are ultrarich BRIISH lycra legends that could probably afford 8 different 8 thousand dollar bikes if one breaks. and they are always on about aero and speed in every vid, so i never know if what they say applies to me or not, i am just practicing and my legs are weak.
>look down
kek true, fair enough
>I don't understand the question.
What I was saying was, how do you memorize what the inside of the lever does as opposed to pushing the whole thing? I don't want to think that I'm, for example, adjusting to make it easier for me to pedal, but all of a sudden i make it ten times harder, then i gotta shift while shoving on the pedals, then the teeth on the gear break or the chain falls off or some other disaster.
thanks for effortposting anons
>Ideally you want to use the lower (larger gears on the cassette) with the smaller front chainring and vice versa.
Isn't this cross chaining? Every video says not to do this. To be frank I am scared of moving the right side shifter away from the middle gears just for this reason. I am not very handy and cannot afford repairs, so if I bust the chain, I will cry.
>What gear you're in should be dictated by your cadence (how fast you are turning the pedals) and the effort required to turn them.
For efficiency's sake you always want to in a gear that you can comfortably turn the pedals with spinning to fast or too slow.
This makes sense.
>What gear you're in should be dictated by your cadence (how fast you are turning the pedals) and the effort required to turn them.
For efficiency's sake you always want to in a gear that you can comfortably turn the pedals with spinning to fast or too slow.
I will try and get more practice in today to get a better feel for cadence.
>>2041388
>some people think this is retarded and only use the big ring for flats/ downhill and reserve the small ring for climbing.
Thats what every first-youtube-result GCN video says to do, but also, those are ultrarich BRIISH lycra legends that could probably afford 8 different 8 thousand dollar bikes if one breaks. and they are always on about aero and speed in every vid, so i never know if what they say applies to me or not, i am just practicing and my legs are weak.
>look down
kek true, fair enough
>I don't understand the question.
What I was saying was, how do you memorize what the inside of the lever does as opposed to pushing the whole thing? I don't want to think that I'm, for example, adjusting to make it easier for me to pedal, but all of a sudden i make it ten times harder, then i gotta shift while shoving on the pedals, then the teeth on the gear break or the chain falls off or some other disaster.
thanks for effortposting anons
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