Wats the difference btween having more or less teeth on a bike??

Question

for street

Answer 1

I'm assuming you mean on the gears.  With gearing it depends on if you mean the gears in the front attached to the cranks and pedals or the gears in the back that spin the rear wheel.

The more teeth in the front means it is harder to pedal but you'll go faster.  The more teeth in the back means it's easier to pedal but you can't go as fast.

What's really important is the ratio of teeth.

Answer 2

the more teeth on the sprocket the slower you peddle there fore making it harder to go slow speeds.

Answer 3

more teeth makes it easier and less teeth makes it harder. It does this because the chain has to go over and the big and the more grip it has the longer it takes to do a revoulotion of a pedal.

Answer 4

its all about gear ratio. more teeth = higher gear less pedaling slower speed. less teeth= lower gear for faster speeds faster pedaling.

Answer 5

If there are less teeth on a bike I'd have to say you might be a redneck, and in that case, its not really a street, its more of a holler.  :-)

Answer 6

well more tteeth on the front (sprocket) means you will get going faster but have a lower top speed but it also depends what you have in the rear (chainwheel) i have a 25 t sprocket and a 9 t chainwheel so it all depends.

Answer 7

Depends.  If you have a large chainring up front, say 48 teeth and you have a 12 tooth cog in the back, you have a decent gear ratio.  Now, if you replace the front large chain ring up front and go with a 54 tooth ring, you increase your gear ratio.  With bigger teeth, you make less pedal strokes, but cover the same amount of ground as you would more pedal strokes with a 48 tooth chainring.

The difference of course would be more speed-- to a point-- with less effort.