If you’re new to cycling gears can seem like a daunting prospect, but learning to use them properly and efficiently is not as hard as it looks! Hank takes you through how gears work, how to use them and some things not to do when changing gear.
Time Stamps:
0:00 – Intro
0:17 – How Do Gears Work?
1:00 – How To Use Gears
2:21 – How To Efficiently Utilise Gears
3:22 – Things To Avoid
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Are there any other beginner tips you'd like us to cover? Let us know in the comments below!👇
If I understand. When changing either both front chainrings or the back cassette, the rider has to stop pedaling for a quick second, before pushing in either mechanical shifters?
Because if you change gears while pedaling, it makes the changing of the gears choppy?
@1:20 that sparkle was a Swiss Toni moment! 😆
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we need more hank content
Hahaha yea cos all beginners start on a pinnarello with DI2!! You should have used a mid range bike with105 so normal people get it!!!
The way you Flawlessly and directly taught us how to change gears and it's every effieciency from the smallest to the Biggest Detail was really helpful man, Ride safe As always!
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Great beginner’s advice, but at 64 I kind of knew that already. What I’d like to get an experts insights on, is how to set up a new set of chain rings, cassette and chain to shift as smoothly as butter, silk, milk or something similar.
I don't know any beginner that has electronic shifters and a Pinarello.
"Electronical shifting", eh…
4:20 don't you mean you don't want to get bogged down in a small i.e. hard gear after coming to a stop?
Thanks! This should help. Will try these and share the experience 👍
Thanks! This video would be better if done with mechanical shifters, as not many beginners would start off with electronic shifting setups.
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I know how gears work and when to shift, I enjoy my Trekking bike with 27 gears. But never knew how the levers are on a curved handlebar like on racing bikes. Very cool system.
what about flicking both levers at the same time ? I use this a lot, which takes you up on the front and down on the back (or vice versa) at the same time ( easing off the pressure through the pedals of course
What does it mean to go down a gear?
What does it mean get bogged down in a big gear? I'm trying to digest the part about what to avoid when coming to a stop. not sure what gears I should be using when coming to a stop.
Do you mean that you should be on a harder gear when coming to a stop so that you can get the bike moving from a stop?
LMAO when I saw the big line of traffic
„Beginner Cycling tips“ proceeds with a Pinarello fully loaded with Dura Ace Di2 😂😭
Cross chaining got 15-20 seconds?? Something that can cost money. Damage your chain, derailleur or the cogs themselves AND sounds terrible. GCN should have done better there.
Does it come with peddles
Hey, how do you go down a gear?
Assembled my new Boardman bike a week after the doctor told me I need to make some serious lifestyle changes. Just rode it down the road for the first time, but had to come back as I couldn’t even work out how to change gear. Last time I rode a bike the two levers were on the down tube. Give it a month and I’ll think I’m Claude Butler – maybe.
Easy https://youtu.be/qprII2Y-dGA
From a pedagogical standpoint you should always, always, always use the exact kind of equipment you're talking about. Don't show a 13,000 buck Pinarello with e-shifters working in one way and say "but if it was a bike with mechanical shifters, it would work like…" Probably at least 95 % of the people watching this video for the information are looking at 500 to 1,500 dollar bikes with entry-level mechanical shifters.
Well explained mate, precise and detailed, thank you much needed video for beginners👍😊
I find this video useless using as an example high end bike.
I don't want to be negative, but why would you logically make a beginner tips video and use high end parts like Bluetooth shifters that 99% of beginners won't have???
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Really love it. https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxMesz3KOGEmwmvyKQfLfrRSUXLFzfVHZA Read all the reviews before I bought it and posted some questions myself. I hesitated for two weeks as I wasn’t sure if I should go with the 3-spoke or regular spoke tires. I’m not an expert but would assume 3-spoke tires would be rather used inside like in a velodrome because I immediately noticed that cross winds DO have an effect on it while riding. I bought the 3-spoke mostly for the look but did think after my first ride I should have taken the regular spoke tires instead. After 150 miles on the bike I either don’t notice the difference anymore, have been able do adjust to it or had simply no cross winds anymore because I don’t seem to notice the discomfort I was first noticing. So yes: I enjoy every ride and I’m glad I bought it. I’m no expert by ride my bike about 20 miles every day. I don’t regret this purchase.
Thx for sharing.
Had no idea that I could even switch the front gears on my bike before this. Thanks!
Hi is shimano 105 better than grx 400 for gravel
1.30 big levers get you to big gear that is right but smaller levers will get harder gears not lighter if I’m right
That was a whole lot of yapping
It's a bit complicated learning how to use bicycle gears than learning motorcycle gears lol. Motorcycle gears are very easy to learn than bicycle's