Most People Who Ride Bikes Have No Idea How to Shift Gears

If you’re a cycling advocate, you probably learned to shift gears so long ago it feels like breathing. But the share of cyclists who can do the same is almost certainly much smaller than our community tends to assume. So roughly what percentage of people who know how to ride a bicycle also know how to shift gears? Nobody has directly surveyed this. We track the rate of bicycle ownership, how often…