How to Shift Gears on a Bike | 3 speeds, 7 speeds, 21 speed bikes

hey guys Dustin here CEO of six-30 today I'm gonna talk about how to shift gears on a bicycle shifting gears on a bicycle can be a challenging endeavor if you've never done it before it's not too bad once you get used to it but if you've never done it there can be a figuring out phase so I wanted to take you through a couple things I've got three different bikes here our six-30 Explorer your Range six-30 bodies and six-30 Pavin trails so Explorer range is a seven speed the body ease is a three speed and the pavement trail is a twenty-one speed so I'm gonna first just take you through the three speed it's the easiest bicycle to shift it's the easiest bicycle gears to shift so on the body use three speed on a three-speed shifter all you generally have is a twist shifter so if you can see right here pretty easy take my hand all you do is shift literally just turn this you guys can't see on camera here but there's a dial up here and if I just turn it backward it goes to second gear shift backward again it goes to third and to go down just turn it forward and it clicks so in the case of a three-speed shifting is very easy you don't have to be pedaling because the the shifting is not related to the chain it's related to a little pin inside of the actual gear so you can just move that pin in and out you can do it while you're sitting here you can do it stop you can be pedaling not be pedaling and then once you get going it'll just go into gear it'll be in gear so that's it basically and it's pretty pretty intuitive because you can just grip it like you're you're gripping your grip and you can just literally your aspec it forward so that's easy so shifting a three-speed bicycle very easy now on a 7-speed very easy as well it's the same there it's now there's there's two actual there's two ways you can encounter a 7-speed there's something called a trigger shift which we don't have on our seven speeds we typically reserved that for 21 speeds but you can see a trigger shift is a little bit different what's you use your thumb here so on our seven speed I'm going to show you the twist shift right now so basically it's the same as a three speed in that you're gonna just put your hand right here just like you're gripping the bike and you're just gonna turn forward or back now the thing with a 7-speed is you cannot shift or you don't want to shift when the bike is not moving because the chain has to move on the cogs of the rear wheel the cogs are the different sprockets and the chain moves to a smaller one or a higher one depending on which gear you're trying to put the bike in so in order to shift a seven-speed bike that has different not an internal but an external derailleur you need to be pedaling and moving and then you shift and the chain will move into place if you shift while we stop we're stopped right here and you get on the bike the chain it's gonna put a lot of torque on the chain to move while you start riding and I see a lot of times the chains will fall off because it's not really ready to shift or it's been kind of played with the other thing too on a seven-speed is my recommendation if you're shifting on a twist shifter is try to go one gear at a time now you can if you wanted to you could just you know come in here and quickly crank this from one to seven there's a likelihood and a lot of times it's going to put too much torque on the chain and the chain may try to move real fast and it's gonna fall off so my suggestion on shifting a bicycle is one gear at a time click let it go in click let it go and click let it go in now if you're going up a hill and you need to get you know down gear really fast you can obviously do a quick shift what I'm saying though is that it may force the chain out because you're putting a lot of you're trying to move that chain very quickly by spinning this and sometimes a chain can pop off not always and depending on the derailleur you're using obviously higher-end derailers can endure that a little bit better than the lower-end derailers but you know biggest take away with the 7-speed is just make sure you're pedaling if you're pedaling it should shift nice and easy as long as the derailleur is properly tuned so again pretty easy twist shifter now moving over to a trigger shifter now this is a 21 speed so with trigger shifters it's actually pretty comfortable as well you just put your hands here now you guys probably can't see over my arm but you put your hands on the grip and your thumb can go right here on the trigger and all you do is push you just push down and in this case you actually have to trigger shifters because you have two different locations of the chain that you're moving you have a sprocket you have actually three sprockets on the front chainring and you have seven sprockets on the rear that gives you 21 different speed options on this bike so you're gonna have one trigger shifter on your left thumb one trigger shifter on your right thumb and then these are labeled one two three on the front and one basically it's 1.3 dot 5.7 basically the dots signify the even numbers and the numbers signify the odd numbers so if you have this in one and this in one you're in first gear if you have this in one and this in two you're in second gear if you have this in two and this in one you are in eighth grade gear if you have this in three and this in seven you're in twenty one the twenty one twenty first gear so it's real easy now another thing is just make sure you're paddling to your pedaling pedaling pedaling boom shift boom shift boom shift now another thing too is don't try to shift these at the same time again if you're having a multiple chain train wheel like a front chainring and a rear chain ring don't try to shift at the same time if you want to go if you basically want to go from you know first gear to eighth gear or if you want to go from first to ninth shift here first then shift up once here that's going to create less torque on the chain it's going to be a smoother ride easy to easier to shift so I've also seen some times where if you try to ship these too fast it can lock up the bike if you try to shift in the front chainring too quickly so you just want to make sure shift one at a time let it go in shift again unless you're in real like dire need of shifting super fast you just want to make sure the chain makes the transition gets realigned properly and you can keep riding so that's my quick overview of shifting gears on a bicycle if you have any questions at all please reach out to us the team at six-30 comm call us on the phone three one oh nine eight two two eight seven seven and don't forget if you're looking for a bike we've got a body fit tool on our website up on the top right below the top navigation click it take the quiz it's gonna fit a body perfect to your bike based on your height your weight and the type of riding you're gonna do and also we have a 365 day return policy so if you buy your bike and you 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Channel: sixthreezero EBikes & Bicycles

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Length: 8min 5sec (485 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 21 2019