Am I just tired, or is something else going on?

The feedback I\’m getting from my legs when I ride the hybrid now seems to say that the new cassette is quite different from the old one. When I shift to the second-largest cog, it seems harder to pedal than the second-largest cog on the old cassette.

The new cassette looks to me like it has six cogs, not seven. The rear shifter won\’t go lower than \”2\”. It seems logical to conclude that the largest cog on the new cassette has been set to 2nd gear.

With a range of 14-34 teeth, how many more teeth does the next-largest cog from the 14-tooth one have? Twenty isn\’t evenly divisible by six. I\’m too lazy to actually count all those teeth. Maybe it\’s three more teeth per next cog except for the largest one, when the number of additional teeth goes up by five?

Perhaps perception is not reality. Maybe riding the hybrid with its new cassette isn\’t any different from riding it with the old cassette. My legs might be just tired from yesterday\’s ride, making riding of any sort seem harder.

To paraphrase Jens Voigt, Wake up, legs!