Originally Posted by jst0076
From your description it sounds as though this is happening to you when you move from a high gear (small sprocket) to a low gear (large sprocket). In this case, yes it is normal. You should be able to skip several gears by pushing the shifter though all its available movement.
As for frequency of shifting, different people have different techniques, but I personally like to keep my cadence (pedalling speed) relatively consistent, so I change my gears as the terrain changes so that my legs are spinning at a fairly constant speed.
Well, it's not from a small sproket to a large one. It's the rear sprokets. It's the smallest one outside, to the next bigger one. But if you're saying that if I use the full range of motion on the shifter it will skip gears this and it's normal, I won't worry about it. Just wanted to make sure all was good with my bike
Just won't push the shifter all the way in.