Gear system
Gear system
With the gear system you can adjust the pedaling frequency, i.e. means the number of revolutions of the crank per minute, to the terrain and the desired speed.
Your pedaling frequency should stay between
Your Street Machine GT comes standard with a
You operate the gear changer with the bar end shifters on the handlebars.
The right lever for the rear derailleur has an index derailleur system that positions the chain always on the chosen sprocket, so that you don't have to "search" for the gears.
It is not possible to index the left lever so that you have to adjust the front derailleur while shifting by slightly moving the shifter to stop the front derailleur from dragging against the chain while pedaling.
Riding a recumbent requires foresighted gear shifting. Before stopping you should timely change in a low gear to make it easy to start off again, without having to pedal heavily and struggling with your balance.
You may only change the gears while you keep pedaling, smoothly and without applying great force, all the time that the chain is moving between the sprockets. Due to the long cables that expand under pressure and the housing that compresses under pressure it may be helpful for changing gears quickly to turn the bar end shifter a little bit farther than necessary to select a gear and turn it back to the indexed position once the chain has properly shifted ("overshift").
When the chain length has been propperly adjusted you can choose every combination of front chain rings and rear sprockets to shift gears. However, it is useful to ride the lowest gears with the smallest chain ring (the biggest rear sprocket), the middle gears with the middle chain ring and the highest (fastest) gears with the biggest chain ring.
The setup of the chain rings and sprocket leads to an overlap of some gears.This means that different combinations of chain rings and sprockets can result in the same gear. It would be possible to arrange a gear system so that double gears do not occur but this requires a lot of concentration when you shift gears while riding, since you will always have to change the rear sprockets as well as the front chain rings. If you would like to change the setup of your gears please consult your local dealer.
Danger! Do practice shifting gears on a
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