Understand bike gearing - intelligent overview for beginners

slowlanejane
slowlanejane Posts: 312
edited November 2009 in Road beginners
Well, being a newbie I dont fully properly understand bike gearing and was a bit coy about confessing that on this forum in order to ask for advice. I read the input on other threads and think "Wha...?" So instead I've been trawling the web and found this on YouTube, seems an intelligent overview (but then it might be cr*p because I'm a newbie and am not much of a judge).

So for the benefit of other newbies similarly confused & shy, here's what I found:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AeNLTQvFN4

I hope its not cr*p because it made sense to me.

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