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The distinction of speeds especially in the front is primarily for marketing. You're fine with this '10 speed crankset'.

Strangely enough, everything seems to say that 11 speed plays nicely together - chain widths, etc. The crankset area (since you're running a 1x11) is effectively independent of the stuff going on in …

Also, note that the gears you use at the time depend on the terrain and what not -- try to aim for a cadence of about 70-90 RPM (how fast the pedals turn). …

You have a bunch of chainrings (gears in the front, attached to the crankset which contains the pedals) and a cassette/freehub which has cogs (in the back, attached to the rear wheel). …

There is a small hesitation between gears 4 and 5, but it clicks into gear when the pressure on the pedal is relaxed slightly. …

Bigger tires, bigger chainrings and a smaller cassette all lead to a higher gearing (the crank arm lengths among other things also come into this, but that encapsulates into bike fit). Bigger tires …

You probably have a bent derailleur if the bike has been banged around and its not shifting right. You'll need to go to a bike shop so they can un-bend it, and then redo the derailleur adjustments and …

You can buy any 7 speed Shimano brifter (or compatible ones made by Microshift). The ones you link to are fine. The front derailleur needs to be Shimano road. You'll need: - Cable stops on the downtu …

It's pretty normal for a bicycle with a freewheel/freehub to turn the wheel backwards a little bit when pedaling backwards a bit (i.e. if you turn the pedals backwards pretty quickly, you get some ver …

With more gears, things have to be machined more carefully and become less robust as well. You need a good gear combination, not the perfect combination (though Nuvinci makes a CVT for bicycles). …

If your cassette is 10 speed, you need a 10 speed chain. The derailleur will be fine.

It depends on your transmission. Some internal gear hubs, for example, are perfectly happy being shifted at a standstill. For a derailleur based system, you should shift while in motion while pedalin …

Number of gears, number of distinct gears and gear range are all different things. … Having 63 gears over the same 5.26x range that a Rohloff gives isn't much of an advantage unless you actually find the Rohloff gears are spaced too far apart (very few people do). …

This is normal for Shimano trigger shifters, and you'll get used to it quickly. SRAM trigger shifters can be operated up and down with thumbs. And there are grip shifts which turn a bit on the handleb …

Generally, if you haven't bent the derailleur (or its hanger) [such as by having a crash], you should have been using the barrel adjuster as shown in this image (from here) in order to make twea …