Name: 自転車でギアを変えるには？ (How To Change Gear On Your Bike | Road Bike Shifting Made Easy)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:49:50.000Z
Duration: 4 min 1 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

程度の副詞

- Gears on a bike can seem really complicated.

様態の副詞

you've probably only got six to worry about or,

you might drive an automatic, in which case you don't need

So what are you supposed to do with them all?

Well the good news is, firstly, that you can forget

There are gears on my bike that I literally never use.

What is crucial, though, is the range of gears

from your easiest gear, right through to your hardest gear.

instead of explaining about all the different gears,

So, your left hand controls big jumps in the gears

moves the chain across the smaller cogs at the back

that when you're riding fast, so above 18 miles an hour

or about 30 kilometres an hour, that you'll be in

your big chain ring at the front, and when you're riding

that your left hand generally doesn't do all that much.

How do you know, then, when you're in the right gear?

Well, it is actually very straightforward.

at between 70 to 100 pedal revolutions per minute,

and you'll be putting in the effort that you want to put in.

in order to keep the gear turning over, but then

not pedaling really fast and not going anywhere, either.

There are, however, one or two mistakes that you will

So, in advance of perhaps a hill that's coming up.

gears don't generally like changing under pressure.

So, if you have to change from your big chain ring

to your little chain ring when you're on a climb,

you may find it's actually quite hard to do so.

try and ease off the gears slightly when you do change.

One final point to be aware of, and that, is as I said

at the beginning, there are certain gears

under a little bit more pressure than it would normally be.

So if you find that you're in your big chain ring

and the big cog at the back, that's called cross chaining,

And then conversely, the small chain ring and the smallest

cog in the back would also do the same thing.

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And then for more content, well set your gear shifting

up to another level, you could click up there for how to

change gear like a pro, or, for some tips on how to

actually set up your gears, click just down there.