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Shimano nexus 3-speed hub gear, yellow dot does not move when adjusting
I have a bike with a Nexus 3 hub gear. Yesterday the shifting got out of whack, when set to gear 2, it was actually in gear 1, gear 3 was 2, and so on.
I looked up how to adjust it, and found that I ...
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Why do I constantly have to re-index gears?
I've got a road bike with a high end 11 speed groupset that is about 3 years / 30,000 km old. Chain and cassette have both been replaced recently (i.e. 500 km ago).
What I'm experiencing is a constant ...
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Why can't I adjust my Shimano Nexus 8 gear?
I have an three year old Electra Townie 8i with the Shimano Nexus Inter 8 hub gear that needs to be adjusted. I followed the guide in this clip
and it was easy enough. ...
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How do I know what gear combinations should work without chain rasp on front derailleur?
I tried adjusting the front derailleur on a 3x10 trekking bike. After fiddling around a long time, I concluded that is probably not possible to make all cogs work with all chainrings. How do I know ...
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Rear derailleur moves to much for each click - tried everything
Two years ago I build a bike (flat bar) with SRAM 1x11. Around a month ago the rear-derailleur broke (guide pulley broke).
I bought a new rear derailleur: Shimano 105 RD-5800-GS.
After installation ...
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Why does my rear derailleur's indexing work for either the high or the low gears, but not both?
I am adjusting my rear derailleur indexing. It seems impossible to find the correct tightness. When I tighten the tension with the tension barrel adjuster, I have one of two problems: either it is too ...
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Rear gears not shifting between 6 and 7
I've just replaced the rear derailleur on my kids bike. I've fitted the biked with a Shimano Altus.
The issue I am seeing is the shifting between gears 6 and 7. When I move from 7 to 6 the chain ...
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Front derailleur takes 6 clicks to shift gears, instead of 3 [duplicate]
I've just stripped all cables and chain from a badly kept bicycle and replaced them.
I've correctly adjusted the rear derailleur and it works great.
However, front derailleur which only has 3 gears ...
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Can you have too many in line barrel adjusters?
Just replacing the shifters on my bike. It had STI shifters and I'm putting thumb shifters on, the shifters have built in barrel adjusters.
The bike also came with barrel adjusters on the down tube, ...
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Rear index shifting not staying in middle gears
I have replaced a chain (SRAM PC 830) and 7 speed freewheel (Shimano MF-HG37) on the back of my daily commuter bike about 300 miles/ 3 weeks ago with the same models. The old parts lasted me 4000 ...
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