Why Your Bike’s Gear Ratio Is Less Important than You Think Modern drivetrains are a net win for consumers, but there’s a loss of simplicity in the push to add more gears Published: Jul 21, 2022 ...

A UCI memo, first reported by Daniel Benson, suggests that, come August, the UCI will begin trials of gear limits on competition bicycles for road races. Time trials, for now, are exempt, as it ...

And when a bike has multiple gears—two or three chain rings up next to your ... (in yellow, above), the wheels rotate once for every pedal stroke. It’s a 1:1 gear ratio. If you shift to ...

UCI, cycling's world governing body, confirmed Friday it will commission a trial to restrict gear ratios and slow down ...

The latter can provide a wider range of gear ratios and is commonly used with mountain and touring bikes. The number of teeth in the chainwheel for a 70 cm wheel touring bike may be selected to be ...

Even though almost all new mountain bikes now have just one chainring and no front derailleur, it would still be nice to have all those other gear ratios again. The Binary Gear is designed to ...