How to Change Gears on a Bike Like a Pro

Today we’re going to explain to you how to properly change your gears on your bike. Changing the gears of the bike not so hard task.

There is some tricky simple process of how you can do it properly.  In this article, we have discussed details of how you can your bike gear like a boss.

Controls Shifter

Let’s start from the top of the 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 that 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 push 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 better performance, it’s important to clean the bike chain and there is a link to an article on how to clean a bike chain with household products.

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 example, if you are on the three on the left shifter, you should be on five and up on the right shifter and if you are on number two you should be between two to eight.

If you are on number one you should be between one to four so in short if you are on number three you should be at the higher gears in the back if you are on two you should be in the middle and if you are on one you should be at the lower gears.

Gear Angle Changing

The main reason is you don’t cross the streams it is bad for your drivetrain on this particular gear we’re on one on the Left which is your smallest chainring 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 you put it to the proper position right you are on three on the left which is your big chainring 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 chainring 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.

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.

Never change Gears Uphill

Never change gears on an uphill. 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.

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 getting too much of an angle when you start getting into that position you can start going down to two.

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 the idea is trying to keep it as straight as possible.

So now I’m on the big chainring in the back which is your lowest gear number one and if I press the right position where you can see the chain is back to the straight which is what you want in closing.

Conclusion

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