The Road Bike Gear with Closely Spaced Gear Ratios

The road bicycle uses specific road bike gear due to its specific terrain that usually flat and smooth. The drive train system of a bike is a system that is used to transmit the power generated by paddling movement by the cyclist into the bike’s wheel. All of the human powered vehicles use drive train system to convert human energy to turn the wheel.

The modern bike uses mechanism that intended to regulate and control the energy and its turning ratio output using gears.  The road bike gear uses derailleur gears with moderate numbers, usually ten to twenty two with close spaced ratio.

The different and ratios of the gear can be set based on the cycling style and the terrain that the cyclist has to deal with. The multi gears are intended to support different condition and circumstances. The normal or medium gears are used for flat and normal road. The high gears are used to go downhill and low gears are used for cycling uphill.

The road bike gear is designed to deal with those road condition but not extreme terrain. The lower gear on the road bike gear delivers lower turn or less rotation on the rear wheel, this condition allows the energy used to travel the same distance being distributed with more paddling. This can make uphill terrain can be traveled much easier with less energy consumption. The higher gear of the road bike gear enables the cyclist to make less pedal turn to maintain high speed on downhill situation. The paddling process will need more energy but the rear wheel will have more rotation with single pedal turn.

The road bike gear uses chain drive transmission that delivers the energy from the pedal to the rear wheel using the chain. The multiple gears on the road bike gear created by putting and integrated gear with different ratios on a set of sprockets and a derailleur.