Mountain Biking Lifestyle
Fixing up an old mountain bike with 15 gears? How do i use them?
I am planning to have more fitness in my life so i can have a healthier lifestyle. i am thinking about using it to go back and forth from school to house and to the library/park area and back. The school trail has a few flattish hills and bumps on the way up, and the library trail has pretty big hills, which even my friend who is experienced, cannot ride up in a cruiser. So, im turning to mountain bikes. Its been a LONG while since my sister has used it, and it is kinda rusted. She has never used the gears before, and i have only found out about them recently. it has 15 gears and i have no idea how to use them or if they even work…a few questions?:
1) how to use them? like do you push or slide?
2) how to know WHICH gear you’re on?
Jenny
There is no right gear. You use them to support your cadence and the pedal pressure you like. You should be ‘spinning’ the pedals at a rate of 70+ rpm, with MODERATE pedal pressure. You want to maintain BOTH the cadence and the pedal pressure over the entire length of your ride. Here is a primer I did on the subject many months ago.
The right hand gears control the rear (wheel) cogs. The larger cogs are easier (lower) and the small ones are the harder (higher) and faster gears. The left hand controls the three gears (chain rings) attached to the pedal. You use the smallest one only for going up steep hills. You use the larger two for the flats and down hills.
On a mountain bike I would almost always be in the biggest chain wheel (controlled by the left hand) and I would use the right hand gears to keep my spin rate and pedal pressure. SEE BELOW
Pedaling is the most important part of riding. You spin the pedal at a high cadence of 70+ rpm with moderate pedal pressure. You use the gears to maintain that same cadence and pedal pressure through out your ride, on all terrain. Do not ‘mash’ the pedals…. pedaling at too slow of a rate in too high / hard of a gear.
Read up on spinning and shifting, or ask in this forum. It is the key to your being able to ride distance, with speed, without fatigue.
Soccerref
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