If you are more familiar with the gears in your car than the gears on your bike, then you’re not alone. Bike gears, and how they work, frequently come up as a concern among beginner cyclists, but ...

When you were first learning how to ride a bike as a kid, the bike you were learning on probably didn't have any special bells or whistles on it, aside from perhaps a literal bell on the handlebars.

Depending on how you look at it, either a lot or not very much has changed about the way bikes shift gears since the mid-19th century. A lot has been refined along the transmission path, in which your ...