scott.475 said:Okay, this is really going to show my newness and ignorance, but how do you determine the gear you are in? Basically, what I mean is, are the lower gears the easiest, like in a car?
The reason I ask is, I bought some of the Spinervals Aerobase Builder tapes, and the gear setting will be, say "sm/15". Obviously, I know the "sm" means the small chain ring (in my case, the middle one), but my cassette has 9 cogs, so how do I know which is "15". I thought I had it figure out, until I saw a setting for "bg/15"...now I'm totally confused how to go about it. The DVD doesn't have a tutorial about this...I guess it should be obvious to me, but it isn't. Maybe I'm overcomplicating the whole thing somehow.
Anyway, thanks in advance for the help.
LOW is easier, as with your car.
I've got to believe that the 15 refers to one of the "middle" cogs on the rear wheel's cassette ... if you look, you will see that (probably) the third-or-fourth smallest cog has 15 teeth (you can either count them OR look for the stamped/imprinted number) ...
"Spinervals" is also probably presuming your bike has a 53/39 chainring set. You may decide that the 15t is too easy if your large ring is only a 48t and your middle is a 36t/whatever.
It sounds as though whoever made up the Spinervals "tapes" took his/her literacy classes at a TESL course at their community college AND have only read poorly written VCR manuals (geez, at least they include a manual with those VCRs & DVD players!) if they failed to include a tutorial on the DVD ... so, now we know that those techno-geeks aren't the only people who don't know how to communicate with the general public (i.e., you & me, et al).
