Originally Posted by
Armyofscipio
By double step do you mean that to shift down i need to shift twice despite the fact I am only going down 1 gear? Why is that? To be honest i inherited this bike and was riding something far inferior before so i do not fully understand Dura Ace completely. It is like i am shifting through 3 gears when i only have 2 up front.
I will get the bike adjusted for sure but i just gotta learn to shift right i guess. It was never an issue before but i think they cheaper claris groupset i was riding on before wasn't so sensitive maybe
I think I got quoted by mistake. But, a double shift with half-step gearing is one step down and one step up. Or one step up and one step down. The first shift is of the front derailleur and the second shift is of the rear derailleur. For example, as you approach a hill you drop from the 52T ring in the front to the 42T ring. At the same time, you shift the rear derailleur from the 17T cog to the 15T cog. One advantage of a double shift is that it yields a gear combination very close (measured in gear inches) to that of the previous combination, just a little bit lower (80.5 inches goes to 73.6 inches). A second advantage is that it sets up the bike's gearing for climbing which you do in the smaller front ring (the 42T ring in my example).