Joes' advice is great. It's simple stuff. It's like learning to ride a bike....once you figure it out (and that's not to tough) you just get better. I prefer it but it's what I learned on and still think it's as good as it gets. You have to dance on the pedals so to speak. In fact, given my choice of any type of shifting I could put on a bike, it would be downtube or bar con friction. Get to know it and I think you'll enjoy it.
On Apr 17, 3:44 pm, Zack <zack...@gmail.com> wrote: > I noticed a discussion cropping up in the "New Chain Skipping" thread that > I thought it would be worthwhile to dedicate a thread to this, as I have > been thinking about it a bit - > > I am a relatively new bike rider, and change gears as it makes sense to me > - when i feel like i need more speed, i shift, when i feel like i am not > going to be able to get up the hill, i shift. > > But I never really learned the "right" way to do this. I have learned a > little about friction shifting just from poking around (lightening up on > the cranks when I am about to shift, as an example) but haven't seen a > dedicated thread to this, nor have I found a good resource. I know for > many of you this is intuitive basic stuff, but I never learned how to ride > a bike from anyone that actually knew what they are doing. > > I generally stay in the middle ring on my front chainring (I have a triple) > and use all of the back gears until I need more, and then I shift to either > the big or small chainring. I am cognizant of cross gearing, but am > probably guilty of doing it once in a while. > > I have consistently had problems with chains slipping, throwing chains > (both off the big and granny rings) across multiple bikes, which leads me > to believe I am part of the problem. > > So how do you ride to ensure that you are treating the bike the way it > should be treated? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
