12 Speed, Constant Changing?

[Chislenko]

I have a bike with 8, one with 9 and one with 11.

My latest bike has 12 and I know it is only one up from 11 but I seem to spend my entire ride changing gear, never appear to be in the correct gear, either too easy or too hard.

Even on the 11 I would change gear infrequently. Don't think I will be progressing to 13 any time soon!

 

[Sharky]

Sounds like the sweet spot doesn't exist on the 12.

Study the gear tables and determine which sprocket was the most used on the old cassette and if the same ratio exists on the new cassette.

And if the sprocket either side or the most used has the same teeth difference.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I have a bike with 8, one with 9 and one with 11.

My latest bike has 12 and I know it is only one up from 11 but I seem to spend my entire ride changing gear, never appear to be in the correct gear, either too easy or too hard.

Even on the 11 I would change gear infrequently. Don't think I will be progressing to 13 any time soon!

Have you changed your chainring combo or cassette ratio? If not, they should be exactly the same gears from 11 to 12 speed, you will just get an extra gear which should actually increase usable gears. For example if you had a 50-34 with an 11-30 cassette, the only difference would be a 16t sprocket on the 12 speed.

If you have switched from Shimano to Sram or vice versa it will be different though due to Sram's different front end combos.

 

[Chislenko]

Have you changed your chainring combo or cassette ratio? If not, they should be exactly the same gears from 11 to 12 speed, you will just get an extra gear which should actually increase usable gears. For example if you had a 50-34 with an 11-30 cassette, the only difference would be a 16t sprocket on the 12 speed.

If you have switched from Shimano to Sram or vice versa it will be different though due to Sram's different front end combos.

No, same as it was, 50-34 front, 11-28 back but that equates to a gear less than two apart each ring depending on how they configure the cassette.