If you’re looking at a 21-speed bike, it’s important to realize that you won’t see 21 different gears. Instead, you get three cogs (which are called “chain rings”) near the pedals at th… See more

Bear in mind, that you don’t ever have to change gears when you’re cycling if you don’t want to – the chain will connect a chain ring (one of the front cogs) and a cog from the re… See more

To make pedalling uphill easier you need to shift into a ‘low gear’. But, what exactly IS a ‘low gear’? The graphic below should hopefully explain. If you use the left gear shifter to m… See more

At the top of a slope, you need to change gears from a low gear to a higher gear. This will stop your legs from spinning too fast and mean that you cover more ground with each turn o… See more