Getting Ready to Accelerate

Ask the Expert: Bike Acceleration (Continued from american Bicyclist)
By John Allen

As an addition to John Allen's article in the Winter Almanac, here are some more thoughts about how to set up a bike for acceleration. (If you don't wield a wrench yourself, take your bike and a print-out of this article to a bike shop, for a consultation.)

Acceleration from a stop uses a sequence from about 35 to 75 gear inches (3 to 6 meters development). Preferably, set up your bike to make this sequence easy-shifting. You shouldn't have to fish around for the bottom gear of the acceleration sequence. Read More.

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