Allez Sport Query
david2788
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Hi All,
Firstly I’ve always enjoyed cycling when growing to and spent a lot of my weekends on mountain bikes with friends. In the last few months I’ve been going down to a local motor circuit which they use for cyclists once a week and I’ve just hired a bike each week.
I decided to take the plunge and buy one this week so I can do my own thing a bit more as well and cycle more than once a week.
So I bought the Allez Sport and had a couple of rides on it and really enjoying it, I was hiring a carbon bike so can feel the difference but still really enjoying it. I know it’s a stupid question and the back cog has 9 gears but I can’t seem to be able to move it onto the big cog as I find the lowest gear is still a little high on the flat. I’ve tried using the gear lever but nothing happens. Or is it that the bike is just mean to run on the smaller cog?
Btw I appreciate this is a very newbie question!!
Thanks
Firstly I’ve always enjoyed cycling when growing to and spent a lot of my weekends on mountain bikes with friends. In the last few months I’ve been going down to a local motor circuit which they use for cyclists once a week and I’ve just hired a bike each week.
I decided to take the plunge and buy one this week so I can do my own thing a bit more as well and cycle more than once a week.
So I bought the Allez Sport and had a couple of rides on it and really enjoying it, I was hiring a carbon bike so can feel the difference but still really enjoying it. I know it’s a stupid question and the back cog has 9 gears but I can’t seem to be able to move it onto the big cog as I find the lowest gear is still a little high on the flat. I’ve tried using the gear lever but nothing happens. Or is it that the bike is just mean to run on the smaller cog?
Btw I appreciate this is a very newbie question!!
Thanks
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its nothing major - 20 minute job.
have a look on the Park Tools site on YouTube or drop it into a shop - 1/2 labour and a tenner of parts if everything else (rear mech and hanger) is cool.
#gears
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
Very newbie question but even now the specs say 9 gears I presume that means 9 gears on the rear cassette and as the front cog has 2 its 2x9?
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour
My worry was that it wasn’t broke it was just not meant to be able to move on the from ring and I would have looked an idiot in the shop!