How To Fix Your Bike
It’s summer and it’s time to pull out your bike and get the gears running again. Half the fun of owning a bicycle is fixing it up, right?
Uhh, no…
If you are dreading getting your bike back in racing condition, here is a website that will help you. Sheldon Brown has an entire encyclopedia of bicycle information.
I found this article particularly helpful:
I have used the number of gears as a bragging point: “It has 21 gears!” but mostly I just use the big three with little variation on the smaller gears. I shift into low on hills and high going down hills. Other than that, I’ve left them alone. This article gives you an actual reason for the gears and how to use them to your advantage.
Just peruse the website and you’ll learn more about your bicycle than you ever thought!