Groupset upgrade

[RussellZero]

Yeah they are homophones, which sound the same, but are spelt differently. Which is not punctuation.

Only if you can't pronounce them correctly.

 

[redcard]

Honestly how old are you lot this is a cycling forum. We should be talking about bikes here not punctuation is it overly pedantic here and u cannot please anymore. And there is a time and place where I use punctuation appropriately. Cycling forums are not really the place to get all fuzzy about it. They r words u can clearly understand them.

Why can't you use punctuation appropriately here? 90% of the regular posters are able to manage it. I find it a tad disrespectful that you're too lazy to press the proper keys on your keyboard.

Also, so many posts later and most people posting are still not really aware what your problem is, or if you actually have a problem, and that's down to your horrible communication skills.

 

[Portableaj]

This is entertaining but is getting trollish. I suspect the OP is trolling for a bet...

The absence of punctuation is not as much of an issue as the spelling and the bizarrely inconsistent use of prepositions.

Nonetheless, I will have a stab at giving a concise, clear reply:

If you are cross-chaining, you do not need to spend money on any new parts. Just stop cross-chaining. Try to avoid riding in gears that push the chain to the extreme left at the front and the extreme right at the rear. And vice versa.

It is not rocket surgery. A modern groupset will give you so much overlap between chainrings that you can spend a lot of your time comfortably in the middle and outer chainring. The inside one will help you on climbs, but may be largely unused on the flat.

Most people seem to like riding at a cadence between 70 and 90 rpm. If you are chunking along at 20mph then you are doing something right. Just stop crossing the chain and try to write comprehensible English.

And if you were trolling for an amusing response, I take my hat off to you. You suckered all the pedants on the forum for nearly a day. But really, they just want to offer helpful advice to people with whom they share a language and a passion for bicycling.

Good luck with the gears and don't spend a sou you don't have to.

I'm trying but its hard because I'm find it too easy to pedal in middle gear (except hills) and clearly you understand what im saying here

 

[Portableaj]

Why can't you use punctuation appropriately here? 90% of the regular posters are able to manage it. I find it a tad disrespectful that you're too lazy to press the proper keys on your keyboard.

Also, so many posts later and most people posting are still not really aware what your problem is, or if you actually have a problem, and that's down to your horrible communication skills.

My communication skills are fine im part of the 10% which dont use it because its quicker to get my point across and as i have been saying this is a forum you can understand what im saying its not like im using words u cant understand this is how i write when writing informally on the internet and come on you lot this is a forum about cycling why are lot talking about punctuation on here its basically makes not difference unless you guys cant adapt your read style like having a time or place writing in a quicker and and time where you have to write or type properly as i know how to do

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Thank you Phill. Originally I have been doing that a lot. And most of the time I'm on the Big crank and I vary from the middle to top cassette. However I am trying to avoid cross chain but its hard due to it being too easy on the middle crank and middle cassette.

One of the pleasures of running a triple is that you can safely use the whole cassette when on the middle chainring. If you do this then just shift up to the big ring when going fast enough you should find you'll have the gears you want.

If you have a look at the chart @mcshroom posted, many of the gears overlap anyway so you should find using the middle ring and highest 4 gears on the cassette feels the same as using the big ring and middle 4 of the cassette.

 

[jayonabike]

Save yourself some money and learn how to cycle properly first

 

[Boris Bajic]

My communication skills are fine im part of the 10% which dont use it because its quicker to get my point across.... (edited)

My dear Portable,

I admire your stamina, but the above is clearly wide of the mark.

Four pages in, you are still struggling to get your point across on a forum where most manage it in a single post.

Your posts are simply scrambled and garbled and mix technical terms and your phrases or sentences seem to flow seamlessly from one sub-topic to another while your vocabulary appears always slightly tangential to the terms normally applied to the part or concept you are describing so is it any wonder that people are baffled by your question if indeed it is a question and I still think it's some sort of game so I'm playing too but I hope my serious post was in some way helpful but playing is more fun so I'm writing like this now.

Most of us love cycling and try to help. Most of us completely failed to understand you first three, four or five posts. Most of us have fairly developed communication skills. I was an interpreter for many years and these 'skills' cover a range of tongues.

Do by all means keep believing that the way you use language helps to get the point across quicker. Four pages of headscratching bafflement seem to give lie to that notion.

Good luck anyway. Spend nothing you don't have to spend. Pump your tyres up. Wear silly hats.

 

[Hacienda71]

:troll:

 

[DRHysted]

I'm going for another try here.

Normal riding using the BIG crank gear use all the cassette gears except the two BIG ones. When you feel the need to change down to the two BIG cassette gears change the crank from BIG to MIDDLE whilst changing up (from BIGGER TO SMALLER) on the cassette gears, so you maintain the same effort. Once you are running in the MIDDLE crank gear and near the SMALLEST cassette gear change to the BIG crank gear whilst changing down (from the SMALLER TO BIGGER) on the cassette gears, but not the the point that you use the two BIGGEST cassette gears.

With regards to the use of the English language, if you are asking for help it is good manners to make it easy for people to understand you. For the record your word salad way of typing is not easy to understand.

 

[400bhp]

I'm trying but its hard because I'm find it too easy to pedal in middle gear (except hills) and clearly you understand what im saying here

I understand what you are saying but if you are pedalling in middle gear and it's too easy then you need to pedal in a higher gear or is that a lower gear well it depends upon how you define lower and upper gear but let's assume that a higher gear means less teeth not teeth that are in your mouth the teeth that are on your rear cassette a rear cassette is the round thingymibob that your chain goes around and is attached to the rear wheel but you need to ignore this advice for the hills where you probably need to have a new bike or maybe pedal in a lower gear but that depends upon your fitness.

Happy to help

 

[Hacienda71]

I understand what you are saying but if you are pedalling in middle gear and it's too easy then you need to pedal in a higher gear or is that a lower gear well it depends upon how you define lower and upper gear but let's assume that a higher gear means less teeth not teeth that are in your mouth the teeth that are on your rear cassette a rear cassette is the round thingymibob that your chain goes around and is attached to the rear wheel but you need to ignore this advice for the hills where you probably need to have a new bike or maybe pedal in a lower gear but that depends upon your fitness.

Happy to help

lets and its wud be beta we cud still understand wot u r saying

 

[Cyclopathic]

Oh take the fudging bus.

 

[outlash]

For the record your word salad way of typing is not easy to understand.

Word Salad, love it .


Tony.

 

[coffeejo]

Didn't believe it was possible, but this thread has simultaneously brought a smile to my face and increased the intensity of my headache.

 

[Rob3rt]

I know that same of these word arent proper english words but honestly most people understand r and u and all these other words. Plus they end up being pedantic when I the use of punctuation is wrong. On a cycling forum. Where use of english language shouldn't matter. However, I have noticed most people how are on here are people who don't understand the point of shorten text on the internet or not using punctuation, which takes long to type down, compared to just typing it down without having these rules involved. This can clearly be read with punctuation or not.

I know I said I was not going to comment again, but I can't resist, this is a UK based forum, therefore the use of the English language matters very much so, only an idiot would suggest otherwise. Also, why do you assume that because you are posting on the internet that good communication skills are suddenly less essential than via other means of communication? I noticed in one of your posts you refer to those of us who commented re. your poor English as ignorant, please justify this statement.