How You Should Be Changing Gears on Your Bike/Bicycle

it's not working I gotta get this huh oh hi my name is Chaz today we're going to explain to you how to properly change your gears on your bike [Music] let's start from the top on your handlebars that you have a left and right shifter the left controls the front derailleur and the right controls the rear derailleur the derailleur is the part which helps the chain move to a different position where they're making it easier or harder to pedal with these shifters there is a thumb and index trigger the trigger releases to a smaller ring and the thumb trigger pushes to a bigger ring the same holds true for the front the higher the numbers are the harder it is the pedal and with the lowest numbers the easiest is the pedal to make things simple for you ideally whichever number you have on the left shifter corresponds to where you should have it on the right meaning if I am on a higher number on the left I should be at the higher numbers on the right for an example if I am on the three on the left shifter I should be on five and up on the right shifter and if I'm on number two I should be between two to eight if I am on number one I should be between one to four so in short if I am on number three I should be at the higher gears in the back if I am on two I should be in the middle and if I'm on one I should be at the lower gears let me show you why the main reason is you don't cross the streams don't cross the streams why it would be bad yes it is bad for your drivetrain on this particular gear we're on one on the Left which is your smallest chain ring on the front crank in the back we are number nine which is your smallest and the high gear as you can see here there's a good angle to the chain which we do not want so when I put it to the proper position right now I'm on three on the left which is your big chain ring on the front as you can see the chain is perfectly straight which is what we want the opposite is true as well so if I go the big chain ring in the back you can see a pretty good angle and you don't want to do that because it's putting too much pressure on the teeth and too much pressure on the derailleur below which you can't see but a lot of tension on the chain you don't want to do that if you have the chain in these positions you're putting tons of stress on the chain and the ridge while wearing down your teeth much quicker it's also one of the main reasons why it may have had a broken chain basically what you're doing is you're playing back and forth pressure on the chain and then eventually snap another reason why you may have a book and chain is if you're applying too much pressure while changing gears especially on up he'll never change gears on a pill if your gears are not changing with one click of the shifter then there's the possibility that the rear derailleur hanger is bent or that the cable tension is not tight enough in fact if you want a video of how to adjust your gears please let me know in the comments below again you want to keep it as straight as possible so if I'm on three I should be at the high gears in the back so it's a nine eight seven six even a five it's fine after that it starts to get too much of an angle when you start get into that position you can start going down to two and then you can go back up to a seven eight nine your final position usually when you're on - you could go pretty much anywhere but idea is try to keep it as straight as possible so now I'm on the big chain ring in the back which is your lowest gear number one and if I press the right position here you can see the chain is back to the straight which is what you want in closing basically just keep in mind that we want the chain to be as straight as possible this will make the bike more efficient and last way long we hope that this video was explained well enough for you if you like this video please give it a share and the like also don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more videos just like this thanks for watching oh hi my name is chess today we're gonna explain to you how to popular change your gear on your bike and last way long we hope that this

Channel: CC Sports

Views: 2,503,402

Keywords: Bicycle, Shifting, Derailleur, 21speed, 24speed, 27speed, How to change, How to Change Gears on a Bike, How To Shift Gears on a Bike, How To

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Length: 5min 6sec (306 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 08 2018