Originally Posted by
Iride01
8th gear is the easiest gear? Why when the bikes I've owned with gear indicators on the shifters do they label the easiest gear as the 1st ?
All my life it's been understood that 1st gear on any thing with a multi speed gear train is the easiest gear ratio. I'll push back on any thoughts that we should describe the easiest gear as 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11 depending on how many cogs are on the rear.
That's what I was thinking too when I wrote that message.
Originally Posted by
Iride01
If the question was more about replacing a cog instead actual use of the bike, then maybe you could convince me that the big cog on a 8 speed stack is the 8th gear.
can you actually take out the 7th gear in an 8 speed cassette and turn it into a 7 speed cassette? Or would the cassette not work because the spacing issue or the flow is not continuous anymore?
Originally Posted by
dabac
So what happens If you unhook the wire and move the derailer by hand, will it swing across the whole cassette then?
Have you backed out the limit screw all the way?
IME, it should work. Only time I’ve run out of reach was with an old clamp-on derailer and a newer wheel.
the derailleur has no problem reading the largest gear on its own. To attempt 1~7, the h screw was all the way in and the l screw was falling out of the socket, but the shifter still can't make it go to big gear consistently. So I had to give up on that.