The bugs are the cicadas. This year is the emergence of 2 different brood years at the same time. In the Chicago area this is covered every night on the news. For shifting, I remember on my 1980 ten speed bike with shifters on the downtube. The left one shifted the front derailleur and the right one shifted the rear derailleur. Moving the lever forward shifted into the smaller chainring/cog. With sifters now integrated into the hoods, it is possible to shift both the front and rear derailleurs at the same time. You'll get used to it, it just takes some time.
Re: trackstanding on a bike that's not a fixed gear I saw a video of a guy on a road bike, waiting at a traffic light, hands off the bars, and he had his front wheel angled to the left while he controlled the back and forth motion with his right foot directly on the tire.
yesterday I was riding over hills with some gradient on a fixed gear bike, whereas the majority in germany seems to ride electric bicycles😄 Singlespeed is nice because you can coast. Even on my roadbike I have a 1 by 10 gear system at the moment
I went through the same thought process for the shifting haha. At some point, I reasoned out that each paddle (2 little and 2 big, 4 in total) acts in pairs, and each pair acts on a single wire and relies on chain tension to actuate either the chain-ring (front, bigger gears) and another to actuate the cassette (AKA sprocket, rear, smaller gears). Each pair either tighens or loosens the tension on the wire. To accomplish what you mentioned would complicate the wiring of the bike, but it can be accomplished and will require longer wires. It'd be similar to actuating the flight surfaces on an aircraft. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_surfaces
I rode for the first time in weeks today and on a bike I've never been on before. I spent pretty much the entire time trying to learn how the shifters worked. Every time i thought i had it, I'd try and go up or down a gear and end up pressing the wrong control. LOL
I would call this "I just bought my first hybrid bike, let's ride together". This is what I imagine people sound like in April and May when they buy their first bike with multiple gears and they are riding. some will get used to it and others will give up and let the bike collect dust. This is why I think 1x systems are great. Seems trivial but it would lower the bar of entry by so much for so many.
Single speed for life Too much to think about with gears. This is why I love single speed, just get in and go. No thoughts, just enjoying the ride. Gears take away from the experience if you’re not racing
I get it, but some of us are better at thinking than we are athletic. lol. Although I have never ridden a single-speed bike, I would think it would take much more physical energy throughout the course of a ride. I am new to cycling and not in shape (yet). Couldn't imagine doing my rides with a single-speed. I have enough trouble as it is. :)
@@icspi1970 it doesn’t because you quickly learn how to be energy efficient, where to pace yourself and when not to, which only brings even more joy to the experience, you can always run a lower gear ratio like 42-16 if you need to climb a lot. Try it before you knock it 🙂
Anything new is hard. Right shifters are for the rear derailleur. One for up one fir down. The left is for the front derailleur,up and down.
I was not confused. Now I am.
single speed biker is evolving? you have speeds? whoa!
The bugs are the cicadas. This year is the emergence of 2 different brood years at the same time. In the Chicago area this is covered every night on the news. For shifting, I remember on my 1980 ten speed bike with shifters on the downtube. The left one shifted the front derailleur and the right one shifted the rear derailleur. Moving the lever forward shifted into the smaller chainring/cog.
With sifters now integrated into the hoods, it is possible to shift both the front and rear derailleurs at the same time. You'll get used to it, it just takes some time.
Re: trackstanding on a bike that's not a fixed gear
I saw a video of a guy on a road bike, waiting at a traffic light, hands off the bars, and he had his front wheel angled to the left while he controlled the back and forth motion with his right foot directly on the tire.
yesterday I was riding over hills with some gradient on a fixed gear bike, whereas the majority in germany seems to ride electric bicycles😄
Singlespeed is nice because you can coast.
Even on my roadbike I have a 1 by 10 gear system at the moment
I went through the same thought process for the shifting haha.
At some point, I reasoned out that each paddle (2 little and 2 big, 4 in total) acts in pairs, and each pair acts on a single wire and relies on chain tension to actuate either the chain-ring (front, bigger gears) and another to actuate the cassette (AKA sprocket, rear, smaller gears). Each pair either tighens or loosens the tension on the wire.
To accomplish what you mentioned would complicate the wiring of the bike, but it can be accomplished and will require longer wires. It'd be similar to actuating the flight surfaces on an aircraft. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_surfaces
I rode for the first time in weeks today and on a bike I've never been on before. I spent pretty much the entire time trying to learn how the shifters worked. Every time i thought i had it, I'd try and go up or down a gear and end up pressing the wrong control. LOL
I would call this "I just bought my first hybrid bike, let's ride together". This is what I imagine people sound like in April and May when they buy their first bike with multiple gears and they are riding. some will get used to it and others will give up and let the bike collect dust. This is why I think 1x systems are great. Seems trivial but it would lower the bar of entry by so much for so many.
I ride a 1X drivetrain. It’s way easier to think about.
Single speed for life
Too much to think about with gears. This is why I love single speed, just get in and go. No thoughts, just enjoying the ride. Gears take away from the experience if you’re not racing
I get it, but some of us are better at thinking than we are athletic. lol. Although I have never ridden a single-speed bike, I would think it would take much more physical energy throughout the course of a ride. I am new to cycling and not in shape (yet). Couldn't imagine doing my rides with a single-speed. I have enough trouble as it is. :)
@@icspi1970 it doesn’t because you quickly learn how to be energy efficient, where to pace yourself and when not to, which only brings even more joy to the experience, you can always run a lower gear ratio like 42-16 if you need to climb a lot. Try it before you knock it 🙂
@@brosettastone7520 I tried it before, and I knocked it. For good. I can never understand single speed fixed gear masochists.
@@shannontrainer5857 we’re built different 😈