Front derailler shifting
04-11-19, 01:25 PM
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Front derailler shifting
I'm wondering if my front derailler is slightly out of adjustment or if something else needs needs to be replaced like cables. It is difficult to shift from the small ring 34T to big ring 46T when in low rear cassette gears (first three gears or so). But FD shifts fine when rear is in higher gears (5-10). What I end up doing is to shift the rear to higher gears then shift the FD. It basically works but just a bit annoying. My components are Sram Apex 2x. Hoping to hear my FD sucks so I can go out and get a newer Force or at least a Rival.
What do you think?
What do you think?
04-11-19, 01:33 PM
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Lever end working easily, indexed? they do gum up with age ..
pull clean & re grease the die drawn cable , yet?
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pull clean & re grease the die drawn cable , yet?
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I'm wondering if my front derailler is slightly out of adjustment or if something else needs needs to be replaced like cables. It is difficult to shift from the small ring 34T to big ring 46T when in low rear cassette gears (first three gears or so). But FD shifts fine when rear is in higher gears (5-10). What I end up doing is to shift the rear to higher gears then shift the FD. It basically works but just a bit annoying. My components are Sram Apex 2x. Hoping to hear my FD sucks so I can go out and get a newer Force or at least a Rival.
What do you think?
What do you think?
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I'm wondering if my front derailler is slightly out of adjustment or if something else needs needs to be replaced like cables. It is difficult to shift from the small ring 34T to big ring 46T when in low rear cassette gears (first three gears or so). But FD shifts fine when rear is in higher gears (5-10). What I end up doing is to shift the rear to higher gears then shift the FD. It basically works but just a bit annoying. My components are Sram Apex 2x. Hoping to hear my FD sucks so I can go out and get a newer Force or at least a Rival.
What do you think?
What do you think?
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Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Old School…When It Wasn’t Ancient bikepacking
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
