How You Should Be Changing Gears on Your Bike/Bicycle

It's not working, I have to understand this, huh, oh, hi, my name is Chaz, today we're going to explain to you how to properly shift

gears

on

your

bike

. Let's start from the top of the handlebars, where 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 make it easier or harder to pedal with these shifters there is a thumb trigger and the index finger, the trigger releases for a smaller ring and the thumb trigger pushes towards a larger ring.

The same applies to the front, the higher the numbers the harder the pedal and with the lower numbers the easier the pedal is to make things easier for you, ideally whatever number you want. having it on the left shifter corresponds to where I

should

have it on the right, i.e. if I'm in a higher number on the left, it

should

be in the higher numbers on the right, for example if I'm in the three on the left gear lever. it should be in five and up on the right shifter and if I'm in number two it should be between two and eight, if I'm in number one it should be between one and four, so in short, if I'm in the number three should be in the highest

gears

back, if I'm in two it should be in the middle and if I'm in one it should be in the lowest gears, let me show you why the main reason is you don't cross the streams.

Don't cross the streams why would that be bad yes it is bad for

your

drivetrain in this particular gear we are on one on the left which is your smaller chainring on the front crank on the rear we are number nine which is its smaller and In high gear, as you can see here, there's a good angle with the chain that we don't want, so when I get it in the right position now I'm in three left, which is the big chainring on the back. forward like you. I can see that the chain is perfectly straight, which is what we want.

The opposite is also true, so if I put the big chain ring on the back, you can see a pretty good angle and you don't want to do that because it's putting too much on. pressure on the teeth and too much pressure on the derailleur which you can't see underneath, but there is a lot of tension on the chain, you don't want to do that if you have the chain in these positions, you are putting a lot of tension on the chain and ridge as they wear the teeth much faster, it is also one of the main reasons why you may have had a broken chain, basically what you are doing is pushing back and forth on the chain and then eventually breaking another one.

The reason you can have a book and chain is that if you apply too much pressure while shifting gears, especially up, he will never shift gears with a pickup, if his gears don't change with a click of the shifter, then there is a possibility that the rear derailleur hanger is bent or the cable tension is not tight enough. In fact, if you want a video of how to adjust the gears, let me know again in the comments below if you want to keep it as straight as possible, so if I do. m in three, it should be in the high gears in the rear, so it's nine, eight, seven, six, even a five, okay, after that it starts to have too much of an angle, when you start to get to that position, you can start going down to two. and then you can go back to seven eight nine, your final position normally when you're on; you can go pretty much anywhere, but the idea is to try to keep it as straight as possible, so now I'm on the big chain plate. the rear, which is the number one lowest gear and if I press the right position here, you can see the chain is straight again, which is what you want when 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 a long time. We hope this video has been explained to you well enough. If you like this video, please share it and click like. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel to see more videos like it. this thanks for watching oh hi my name is chess today we will explain how to change gears popularly on your bike and it will last a long time we hope this