How Do Bicycle Gears Actually WORK?

Ever wondered how bike gears and gear ratios work? What's the difference between a standard, semi-compact and compact chainset? What gearing did Lance Armstrong use?

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[infinitybeyond]

Whoever invented this system must be a bloody genius

[MarkNealon]

This was more "what are gears" than "how do they work". I was hoping for a description of your shifters change the gears etc

[tanicwhisper]

Wow this video couldn’t have made it anymore more simple, I was getting so frustrated with these other tutorials. A lot of them already assumed I knew my gears and names for my gears. Thank you.

[james]

Don't do drugs, kids. Stick with 11-32.

[cityoff-roader]

Also categorize the drug used by Armstrong.

[Macjizle]

This is so much simpler to understand now. Great video.

[simplysezzy]

Thank you for explaining it as simple as possible. I know that it is way complex that and that there are extremely many technicalities to cycling and bikes. I think you did great!! Neatly done easy to follow well formatted video!!!!

[jamesjahmoolahutmorrison]

Armstrong could have done those climbs on 53/11😂... Though not sure he was the best example to be honest🤪

[serrysingh]

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[KekusMagnus]

armstrong was also juiced as hell and trained like a madman, attacking an 8% incline with gears that high is truly mental

[nic-cddg]

I prefer your Video it’s more detailed and explains how it works which was what I was looking for and this popped up very helpful ty

[WolfieNamira]

This video had all the information other than the information I was looking for

[AbrahamTheBadBadger]

And to this day, I still don't know how to use the gears

[wwatkin]

Incorrect! Lance Armstrong was a big fan of the test gear, administered by the syringe cog!

[fabianwalker]

My gears have a mind of their own they change about six hours after me changing the gear

[nimoconst]

No chapeau for Armstrong he is a despicable cheater

[ashkanahmadi]

but ... but ... but ... you didnt really explain how gears actually work. but thanks overall. i didnt know how to calculate the wheel's turn. how can we calculate our speed then? number of teeth on the chainring/cogs * the circumference of the wheel?

[marktindal]

Thanks for this, all the other videos are taking about all these terms assuming everyone knows them.

[Sreejithgop]

thanks .. very informative, Those who have common sense will understand this better than any other video

[jamesmatheson]

Because I have limited knowledge of bikes I can't do this project maybe you can
Gears were meant to be put on a wheel for you to exercise your arms same as a leg arm Exerciser
So when you move the wheel with your arms you start at a light weight and after a certain number of turns you increase the gears strength so your arms moves a heavier weight

This is how people get muscles
They lift small weights and then heavy weights
The advantage of wheel with gears is you don't need the weights and can put on muscles anywhere
Let me know if you understand
Thanks for the video