Gear Steps: Percentage Jumps Between Cogs and Overlapping Gears
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You measure the percentage jump between neighbouring cogs, find the largest step, count the small-ring gears that duplicate the big ring's range, and flag the jumps a rider will feel.
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Lessons in this course
- Gearing: Gear Ratios, Development & Speed at a Cadence Locked
- Gear Steps: Percentage Jumps Between Cogs and Overlapping Gears Locked
- Threshold Power, Watts per Kilo & Training Zones Locked
- Normalised Power: Rolling Averages, the 4th Power & the Variability Index Locked
- Intensity Factor & Training Stress per Ride and per Week Locked
- Fitness, Fatigue & Form: Exponentially Weighted Training Load Locked
- Climbing Physics: Power for Gravity, Rolling & Air Drag, and Time for a Climb Locked
- Event Pacing: Target Power per Segment, Work in kJ & Finish Time Locked