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Improve my hill climbing gear ratio on my Cannondale CAAD8
I own a Cannondale CAAD8 and absolutely love it. However it's not the greatest hill climber and I am considering on getting a bigger cassette to improve my ride experience on hills
The current bike ...
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7 or 8 speed cassette?
I'm riding a Schwinn GTX 2 and using it to learn things on. I am new to fixing newer bikes. I've changed to Altus front and rear derailleurs. Now I'm about to put on a gearset of the same. I've got ...
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Upgrading gears from microshift to Shimano
I have a Firestorm 29D (3 * 8 gears, 24 total) bike. The shifting is not smooth at all. I would like to upgrade my rear derailer and shifters or groupset to Shimano altus or any other. Kindly suggest ...
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Can I 'upgrade' a 9 speed Tiagra RD to Sora to lower my gears?
My girlfriend has an oldish Cannondale CAAD8 bike with Tiagra 9 speed triple. The rear derailleur is the RD-4500 GS with a 12-26 cassette. The front is a 50-39-30. She'd like to get a lower bottom ...
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Best solution for 2x8 index shifting [closed]
I've been riding a pretty well-tuned frankenbike (I call it the argos, I've had it for 15 years) set up with claris 2x8 shifters (r2400) and dura ace (7700) derailleur on the back with an old ultegra ...
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Can l add more gears by replacting the cassette on my mountain bike?
I have a Giant Yukon with 8 speed. I want to know if l can change it to 10 or even 11 speed?
Is it possible to change the cassette on the rear wheel?
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Best Way to Upgrade My Bike
About three months ago I bought a second hand bike for £70; to be honest it is reasonably good. Current setup for gears is a 2 x 18 (38-48 front, 13-28 rear).
As far as I can tell it's not a branded ...
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Best option to upgrade 7-speed bike to higher gears
I have recently bought Giant Escape 3 hybrid bike that came with:
Shimano FC-TY501 28/38/48 chainset 8/7/6-speed compatible
Shimano Tourney RD-TY500 7/6-speed rear derailleur
Shimano MF-TZ31 14-34T &...
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Can I upgrade to SRAM GX Eagle from Shimano Acera 9 Speed?
Thinking about upgrading my gear set to SRAM GX Eagle 12-Speed Groupset 175mm from a Shimano Acera 9 Speed 40/30/22 MTB chainset
Would this be compatible?
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Is it possible to upgrade a 6 speed mountain bike to 7 or 8 speed?
I ride a Hero Sprint, MTB, with 6 gears in rear and 3 in the front. I am thinking about upgrading my 6 gears to something like 7 or 8. Is it possible, if yes, how much does it cost, and what are the ...
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Which upgrades are required for participate in cycle race?
I want to take part in cycle race, so for that I upgrade my bicycle to 18 gear. (It was not shipped with gears)
Here is my cycle STREET RACER NE 26T. (this is the same model I've, but size may be ...
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Adding front derailleur vs upgrading the rear one on a (ladies) bicycle
What I want to achieve is going from having some gears to having more gears. To be more specific I would like to get more gear ratio range in both low and high end.
First of all I tried to look for ...
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Upgrading Bicycle Gearing
I have a Raliegh falcon touring frame, which I've been upgrading gradually as it's in good nick, putting modern componants on it.
I've got to the point where the next thing I need to do is upgrade ...
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I find that I'm always in my highest gear. What options to I have to re-distribute the ratios to a more useful range
I have three gears in the front and 8 in the back, but I always use the highest gear (I live in a flat place) I might drop down one or two gears occationally but this is only a small fraction of the ...
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