I’ve been wanting a propane grill since we bought our house 5 years ago but I didn’t want to shell out big bucks for something I won’t be constantly using. My town is doing a village garage sale this weekend and I saw this little guy 4 houses down from me so I ran over and offered my neighbor $40. It came with a cover and I already have a full propane tank so I am excited to get grilling.
I love garage sales! My little village had a “town-wide” garage sale last weekend. I picked up an electric chainsaw, two weedeaters, an 18 speed bike, and a bike trailer for a grand total of $30.
That’s a legendary haul!
Larger chain rings are for lower gearing. So if you are towing heavy or going uphill. You shift up to smaller chainrings for more resistance and downshift to bigger chainrings for less resistance.
Yup. But for how I normally use my bike, I rarely need more than 5 tops. 1st gear is stupid low, it feels like I could tow a car with that one lol!
Also I live in a very flat area. I could see using more of them if I lived somewhere with more hills to have to drag my sorry arse up and down.
I think I went like 15 years before I shifted out of my middle chainring. Then I moved somewhere mountainous and spent so much time wishing for lower gears. I thought I was a strong biker as a flatlander but I spent months getting dropped daily on my way to work by mom’s towing their kids to school. Humbling for sure!
18-speed bike? The most I ever heard of is 10. How many gears do you expect to actually use? Seems like cable TV with 4000 channels.
Instead of the normal (old?) 5 gears on the back, this one has six and 3 on the front makes the 18. I hardly ever change the front, so I only really use 5 out of that anyway.
Maybe a serious bike person would use them all, but I see no point in it.
I found that while I never used the full range, I did use all the gears … let me trying to explain that better: I used all six of the back gears and I used all three of the front gears, even if I never used all eighteen combinations.
If you want to shift the front gear, it helps to be on “that end” of the back gears
I don’t know if the technology has gotten better but for me, neither fully diagonal combination worked well anyway.