I would go with gears simply for the fact that one gear alone doesn't usually do much.
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I would go with gears simply for the fact that one gear alone doesn't usually do much.
gears, alias cog/cogs to gear because a gear without cogs a gear is a circular disk. (Also who the hell tags cogs)
"gear" is also a mass noun referring to "equipment", fwiw. Maybe that's your subconscious aversion to using the singular in this case, jxh2154.
No disagreement so far so aliased to gears.