By shifting gears, you can efficiently adjust your effort to match riding conditions. A bicycle’s gears don’t work so differently to car gears, except that it is you providing the power.

Bike gears are, to a greater or lesser extent ... the derailleur is correctly positioned below each sprocket, or by adjusting the derailleur limit screws if the chain is failing to engage with ...

But in almost all cases, you're still manually adjusting something to move the chain and change gears, depending on the resistance you're feeling on the bike. Even the most outlandish recent ideas ...

With components designed by cycling industry giant SRAM and made from heavy steel, the bike has rim brakes, two gears, two chainrings, and two separate chains. And that makes total sense.

If you’ve spent any time on two wheels, you’ve certainly experienced the woes of poor bicycle shifting. You hit the button or twist the knob expecting a smooth transition into the next gear ...