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You know, it's always hard to find that proper gear to create the proper revolutions per
minute. Hi, I'm Gavin from Gregg's Cycle in Green Lake in Seattle and I'm just going to
run down really quickly how to find that proper gear so that you are peddling the proper revolutions
per minute. So to start with, basically what you want to shoot for is what we just call
a comfortable cadence. And basically all that is, is you don't want to feel like you are
spinning way too fast or pushing way too *** the bicycle. To do that, that's why there's
so many gears and so many options for you on the bicycle. To choose from that, there's
a basic rule of thumb, thumb to follow. On the bicycle you have, what you have, the three
front gears and then seven, eight or nine in the back. As that general rule of thumb
goes, if you're peddling uphill you want to be on one in the front. If you're going on
the flats to stay in that comfortable cadence, you want to stay in the middle or the second
gear in the front. And then if you have a slight decline your just racing downhill you
can jump up into the biggest ring in the front or three. Now the micro adjustments are just
there to get any number of options to come, to combine with the, with the gears in the
front. So for instance if you have a very high, high hill that you're climbing, you
can go ahead and be in one and one, the easiest. And that'll get that very comfortable cadence.
Now, a comfortable cadence usually is between, you know, seventy five, eighty five revolutions
per minute. You can certainly jump into a computer system that'll tell you that. As
the general rule of thumb goes, just as long as you feel comfortable peddling the bicycle
you're usually within that comfortable cadence or revolutions per minute. What I'm going
to do now is just show you what, you know, like a way too fast of cadence feels like
and looks like. And then by using my gears all I'm going to do is just get into more
of a comfortable cadence and all that comfortable cadence or revolutions per minute is going
to do is just keep you going as fast as you can, for as long as you can. So this is going
to be the way too fast. If you notice you're out there and you're just spinning really,
really fast and you're only going, you know, not very fast. What you can do at this point
is go ahead and drop it down a gear so into the higher numbers in the back a little bit
and that'll lower that cadence down. If you still notice that you're spinning way, way,
way too fast all of a sudden, again, you need a little more higher ratio. So go ahead and
use the front shifters and that'll get you into that nice cadence. That'll keep you going
as long as you can while you're out riding your bicycle. We've just finished talking
about how to peddle the correct revolutions on the bicycle, basically just by using gears
to create that comfortable revolutions per minute. This is Gavin from Gregg's Cycle in
Seattle. Have fun.