Bike speeds, a little confused
Well I'm a little confused. I was under the impression that to determine the speed of a bike you take the number of chaining's and multiply that by the number of cogs. But I have a bike that has three chainrings and five cogs, which to me is a fifteen speed bike. But all the information on the bike says it is a eighteen speed. The owner of the bike is the original owner and he has never had any changes done to this bike. Am I missing something? Or is this bike labeled incorrectly. It is a Thruster ATB bike. Not sure who makes this brand as I can't seem to find any information on it.
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Count the chain rings again to make sure or instead of a 6 speed in the rear someone put a 5 speed on. The high and low gear is probably the same no matter what so it makes little or no difference. Roger
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It is only as many speeds as the chainrings x cogs no matter what the information says.
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Perhaps the bike was labeled for Canadian sale. Does 15 speeds U.S. convert to 18 speeds using the Metric System?:D
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there are two possibilities i can think of
if the bike was purchased used then it is likely the previous owner swapped parts and it wound up with a 5 speed freewheel the other possibility is that you miscounted the cogs on the rear it is an easy mistake to make remember when counting that there is a cog under thd chain the problem with having a different number of cogs than originally came on the bike is that the indexing on the shifters will not work weell and the derailleur may need to be adjusted to work properly with the freewheel |
And besides the real count of cogs x rings there is the issue of the actual ratios the various combos provide. If you divide the ring by the cog you get the ratio of a particular combo. Going through all (15 combos for the OP) ratios can show that some combos are nearly the same ratio as others. So the 15 speed (or different ring/cog combos) might more realistically be an 11 speed by practical gear differences. Andy.
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Originally Posted by Andrew R Stewart
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And besides the real count of cogs x rings there is the issue of the actual ratios the various combos provide. If you divide the ring by the cog you get the ratio of a particular combo. Going through all (15 combos for the OP) ratios can show that some combos are nearly the same ratio as others. So the 15 speed (or different ring/cog combos) might more realistically be an 11 speed by practical gear differences. Andy.
The number of usefully different ratios is usually about 2/3 of the number of available combinations. Now, exactly how much difference there needs to be considered usefully different can probably be endlessly debated, if anyone feels so inclined. And it will differ between setups anyhow. Me, I'm happy with the 2/3 ballpark. |
Well I guess that someone must have messed up when they put the 18 speed decal on this bike. The original owner says that he never changed anything on this bike and to have three chainrings on the front and five cogs on the rear is not an eighteen speed. Oh well something new to experience.
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