Worse Day of the Year Ride

[mimitabby]

Mimi,
It helps to think of it this way instead:
It's not that there are GEARS that you don't use. It's that there are gear COMBINATIONS that you don't use, because those combinations will make your chain too crooked between your front and rear gears (cross-chaining) and that bad chain angle will cause your chain to scrape against the derailleurs and/or jump off and other bad stuff.

yes, that sounds nicer.