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how many gears? (Photos attatched)

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  • 22-08-2014 6:22pm
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    Stressica
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭


    So I'm selling my mountain bike to upgrade to a hybrid bike because I'm getting more into long distance cycling (plus the mountain bike is too heavy)
    I've never really known or bothered to find out how many gears are on it but want to be able to tell people with the ad I'm putting up with it.


    Thanks in advance :)


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    Buzwaldo
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    18


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    Stressica
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Stressica


    ok thank you, :)


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    Brian?
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 20,906 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    Technically it's 3x6 as some of the gear ratios overlap.


    That's some quality pedantry right there.

    they/them/theirs


    And so on, and so on …. - Slavoj Žižek




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    magicbastarder
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    you may find it difficult to find a hybrid which co-ordinates with your socks in the way the current bike does.


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    Eamonnator
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    matching colour of socks to colour of bike. well done.

    beaten to it.


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    Stressica
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Stressica


    'Ive seen a bike I like, a hybrid with 21 gears, I love this bike but for going up hill its murder, Im only light myself so think the lighter bike is a better option

    and haha thanks the new hybrid is actually pink in parts ;)


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    Lumen
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    Brian? wrote: »
    Technically it's 3x6 as some of the gear ratios overlap.

    That's some quality pedantry right there.
    Surely overlap is irrelevant to the "number of gears" question, to which the answer is 9: 3 at the front and 6 at the back.


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    Zyzz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    Offer asking for socks.


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    Wishbone Ash
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    Stressica wrote: »
    ....I love this bike but for going up hill its murder...
    Are you using the gears correctly? With a 3/6 set up your lowest gear should be very low - i.e. chain on smallest sprocket at the front and largest on rear.

    While a hybrid may be lighter, it may not be 'geared' so low.


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    Inquitus
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    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    Are you using the gears correctly? With a 3/6 set up your lowest gear should be very low - i.e. chain on smallest sprocket at the front and largest on rear.

    While a hybrid may be lighter, it may not be 'geared' so low.

    That MTB pictured is finest canal recovered 431 Cast Iron, anything aluminium is going to go up hills better! ;)


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    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users Posts: 6,368 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    you may find it difficult to find a hybrid which co-ordinates with your socks in the way the current bike does.

    636bfac985408e0854247de3ac3afa2c_zpsa69f21ef.jpg

    This would suit perfectly ;)


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