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Almost every Van Raam bicycle has (optional) gears. Find out all about gears on an adapted van Raam bicycle in this article.
Nowadays, you can choose gears for almost any bicycle. This also applies to the adapted bicycles of Van Raam. Gears allow you to determine how heavy or light you pedal. They also have several other advantages:
Which gear you should use depends on the weight of your bike, how heavily it is loaded and on environmental factors such as the wind and whether you are riding uphill. The gear that is easiest to cycle in, and therefore has the least resistance, is the right one.
Nearly every Van Raam bicycle is equipped with gears. Several Van Raam bicycles come with gears as a standard. Bicycles that don’t have them by default, are available with gears as an option. Only the Husky tricycle for children and the City walking aid cannot be ordered with gears.
The gears on the Van Raam adapted bicycles are easy to operate. You can set the gear by turning the relevant handle. When you start cycling it is useful to make sure that you have the gears in a light range so that you can cycle away easily.
Van Raam uses two types of gears: the Nexus 8-gear hub from Shimano and the Enviolo City’s continuously variable gear hub.
With the Enviolo gear hub, keep in mind that as soon as you turn the gear handle towards you, you get a heavier gear (you pedal slightly harder), and you have a lighter gear when you turn the handle away from you (you pedal slightly lighter). With the Enviolo gear hub, you can only change gears when you are in motion, whereas with the Nexus gear hub you can also change gears when you are at a standstill.
Gears allow you to decide how heavy or how light you cycle.
In the overview below, you can see which bicycles are supplied with gears as standard and which are optional. Bicycles with gears as standard are, in almost all cases, bicycles for more than one person where an accompanying person is the main driver.
If changing gears is difficult for your, because you have little strength in you hands for example, it is possible to choose the optional gear level. This 3D-printed option makes changing gears easier. You push it forwards or backwards with, for example, a finger to put the bike in the right gear. You can read more about this in the article ‘3D print bike gear lever for special needs bikes Van Raam’.
With a gear lever, changing gears can be easier if you have little strength in your hands, for example.
Gears on the bike are also possible in combination with other options, such as pedal assistance or a special handlebar. Would you like to see more options? You can see them on the options page on the website.
With the online configurator on the website, you can put together your own bike with gears. In a few simple steps, you can customize the bike according to your wishesand see the chosen options with prices.
To be able to move forward, every bicycle has a drive system. On the Van Raam special needs bicycles this is a fixed gear or freewheel. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about the drive system on a Van Raam special needs bicycle.
When cycling on a regular bicycle is no longer possible, limitless bikes can offer a solution. Van Raam has several adapted bicycles in its assortment. Read more about our bikes in this article.
All kinds of options and accessories are available for your special needs bike. These options will make sure your bike is completely adapted to your wishes and needs. One such option is a special handlebar for your special needs bike. Read more about the different adapted handlebars at Van Raam here.
If cycling becomes difficult due to your disability, you have the option to look at a special needs bike. Van Raam has adapted bikes that are suitable for different disabilities. A special needs bike makes cycling (together) with a disability often possible again. Click here to view these special needs bikes.
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