Paul_Smith SRCC said:We only did a short test ride, but her first impressions were how much more responsive it was compared to her old ATB. One thing she does miss is the gear lever indicators though, often ladies rely on those to know which gear they should and shouldn’t use.
With upmarket drop bar shifters though there are no such indicators, many do indeed struggle for a while but with patience they get there in the end. I note that often men and women seem to learn this in a much different way, where as many men relate to how the chain moves up and down the cassette and what they therefore need to do to trim the front mech’, ladies often seem to learn this in a more mathematical way, certain gear numbers can only be used with certain chain ring numbers, as such they can find it more difficult when changing from a bike with gear indicators to one without.
Paul_Smith
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I just make it up as I go along. I do like the gear indicators on my hybrid. On the Galaxy, obviously there aren't any. So I tend to use whatever feels right at the time. I'll mainly stick to using all the gears on the middle chain ring. In the largest chain ring I'll use the first three or four of the hightest gears, and on the smallest chain ring use the first three or four lowest gears. No idea what this equates to, it's just what I feel comfortable doing without indicators.
Glad the bike was a hit - it was a cracking episode of Dr Who btw. It had TWO David Tennant's AND John Barrowman
