Custom Gear Tips for BMX Bikes

Video Transcript

"In the past couple of years you may have noticed a trend with the sprockets on BMX bikes becoming smaller and smaller. I currently running a mid sized 36 sprocket a couple of years ago this wasn't even an option and people would only run 44 tooth sprockets. As sprockets keep getting smaller you have to run a smaller clog in the back to maintain a similar gear ratio. This is all brought up by the advent of high quality cassette hubs that will hold up to abusive riding, having a smaller set of gears will give you extra room for certain types of tricks anything to where your sprockets going to be closed to a movable object. For example grinding tricks if your doing any sort of quarter pipe tricks you'll notice that you'll hit your sprockets a lot less if you have a smaller sprocket. At the same time you shouldn't exactly necessarily go out and get the smaller sprocket that you can possible find because you'll actually experience vastly faster train wear. If your running a very small sprocket and cassette in the back because essentially the amount of load that is spread out through the chain is spread out through a number of teeth and you'll find that there drive train wears out a lot faster. So basically if your the type of rider who does a lot of grind tricks or in general finds the amount of room that you need in the bottom bracket area is very great. Then a smaller chain ring and cassette maybe the proper avenue for you to go at the same time if you find that you ofter breaking chains and wearing out parts of your drive train and that's something that you really don't like. Sticking with a little bit smaller chain ring maybe the way to go."