By shifting gears, you can efficiently adjust your effort to match riding conditions. A bicycle’s gears don’t work so differently to car gears, except that it is you providing the power.

1. Shifting your bicycle’s gears is primarily about locking in a gear ratio that allows you to pedal with a sustainable cadence (crank revolutions per minute) and torque (how much pressure you ...

National Shifting Gears: Commuting Aboard The L.A. Bike Trains December 1, 20135:33 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered By ...

Brunswick resident Rosy Strong rides her bike to work in Richmond. ”It means I don’t have to think too much about exercise or going to the gym out of hours,” she says. ”My ride to work ...

Gear Shift Invented by L. RosenfeldAn exhibition of the changeable gears which can be applied to any bicycle was given at the Bidwell-Tinkham Riding Hall, 310 and 312 West Fifty-ninth Street, on ...