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Tagged with derailleur gears
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Problems with front derailleur shifting on an inexpensive bike
I bought a cheapish bike (Nakamura) couple of years ago, and it generally serves me well. Main problem that I have is that shifting gears, especially front gears often gets out of tune. After only a ...
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Changing Crankset on a bicycle
I have a fixed gear BTwin My Bike White.
I need to upgrade but the resale value is too low for it.
So I was thinking of adding gears to it which might click the real deal for me.
Can I convert it ...
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Chain rubbing on new derailleur and crankset
My bicycle is a Rockrider 520. I have replaced my front derailleur with Shimano Acera FD-M390 and my crankset with Shimano Acera FC-M391. But chain is rubbing inside of FD even when FD cable is not ...
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Why is my bike slipping gears?
I have a 1997 Gary Fisher Tassajara that got a complete overhaul and tune-up at a bike shop a year ago. (to the tune of $180, but some of that was new tires- I'm the original owner) I ride between 4 ...
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Road Brifters with MTB Derailleurs
I've just bought a lovely Surly touring frame and I simply stuck all of my mountain bike components on it.
That means I've retained a flat handlebar. I'd really like to stick drop bars on though and ...
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Shimano Claris shifter double/triple shifting up (when moving to smaller, harder cogs) on the rear derailleur
Although my rear derailleur is properly indexed it's suddenly started to double or even triple shift on an upshift - i.e. when moving to harder, smaller cogs on the cassette.
This happens whether I'm ...
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Bent front-derailleur
I biked to school today with my bike in perfect condition. Locked it up and went to class. When I went to my bike a couple hours later, the derailleur was bent out of position. My bike's front gear ...
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Adding front derailleur vs upgrading the rear one on a (ladies) bicycle
What I want to achieve is going from having some gears to having more gears. To be more specific I would like to get more gear ratio range in both low and high end.
First of all I tried to look for ...
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Can't shift to gear one or two
I had an issue where every time I put my bike in gear 3, it would just keep "skipping". By this I mean that it wouldn't stay in gear 3; the chain would go onto it, then fall onto gear 4, then go back ...
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The spring in my front dérailleur is jammed
My front derailleur is jammed by dirt (grease + fine dust), because of this the gear doesn't shift perfectly and chain is thrown off the cog. The spring is a bit unreachable because the derailleur arm ...
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Rear shifting - Unable to shift to toughest gear
I was adjusting my rear shifting following the advice in this video:
It was when I took off the wire tension and screwed the high limit all the way out that the chain ...
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Upgrading rear derailer and cassette
I recently got what most people would consider a cheap and toy road bike as a gift. It came with very primitive RD and cassette (shimano SIS? I think). I enjoy upgrading my stuff, my question is, ...
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Is it normal for the chain to slip in an 'extreme' gear?
My bike's recently been in for a service so afterwards I checked that all the gears are shifting and working properly.
As part of my testing I put some power through the cranks in the photographed ...
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Can I modify the gearing on a 2009 Jamis Aurora?
I have a stock 2009 Jamis Aurora.
I'm looking to modify my gear set-up to make climbing hills with large loads a little easier on my knees, as I constantly find myself wishing I had one or more low ...
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how to adjust the derailer - apart from the L/H limiting screws
Pardon my newb terminology. My bike's chain will not stay on the H gear (the big ring) The front derailleur will not allow it.
I have loosened the limiter screw out to it's maximum and, still, no ...
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