Sentence examples for single gear from inspiring English sources

He rides a fixie, a bike with only a single gear secured to the rear wheel.

Because the single gear is mounted directly onto the back wheel, the pedals keep turning as long as the wheel does.

Europe's problem is actually the opposite — the difficulty of forcing a multispeed family of nations to all travel forward in a single gear.

For this reason, to obtain a large speed ratio in a single gear pair, a worm and gear are well suited.

Though I hadn't tried to shift the automatic manually, the adaptive gearbox responded to my aggressive driving by staying in a single gear -- allowing me to accelerate when exiting a turn or use engine braking to slow down.

Boardman looped the track on his road bike then mounted a bold blue Eddy Merckx carbon fibre machine that echoed the blue of his GAN strip and began to crank up his speed, climbing out of the saddle to master the single gear that he would churn repeatedly for the next 60 minutes.

Parts were expensive: Such off-the-shelf items as single gears went for $15 and the doll required dozens of them.

Parts were expensive, given that off-the-shelf items like single gears went for $15 and the doll required dozens of them.

Most of the ships had two direct-drive steam turbines and a single geared cruising turbine; was equipped with two geared steam turbines only and, as the first U.S. destroyer so equipped, greatly influenced later U.S. Navy destroyer designs.

Due to the wide variable output of the turbine and the high level of torque, a standard gearbox was not necessary, leaving the Howmet TX with only a single gearing speed.

My bike was an old single-gear clunker picked up at a garage sale for $5, probably around 1960.