Why don't bicycles use gearing?
The advantages of chain drive are: 1, good fault tolerance, low requirements for assembly accuracy, allowing the existence of a small relative error before and after the sprocket; high transmission efficiency, without the need for high-precision machining can reach more than 0.95, while the two-stage gear drive is generally about 0.8. The advantage of gear transmission is: can use closed structure to realize maintenance-free, better withstand the harsh environment of sun and rain. Early in the development of bicycles, engineering lions considered shaft drives. First of all, the cost. In those days since...