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And, did you adjust the adjust the little positioning screw so it touches your frame (or supplied plate) and prevents the FD from twisting?
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Brakes are mechanical with 140mm rotors.
Here's one for $700.
700C road bike frame high light titanium frame road bike (alibaba.com)
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Saturday was the first ride on my new (to me) dirt rig. There are some maintenance issues to sort out, and some changes to be made, but this thing is light, fast, and fun.
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Fun Fact: A friend of mine (our daughters played softball together for a few years) is one of the lead engineers of the team that built both Mars Rovers. On the first one, my friend go a seat on the C130 that flew the Rover from CA to FL. On the second, he let one of the younger engineers have that honor.
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I learned yesterday that a friend of mine's teen age daughter is doing a coast-to-coast ride this summer. While the group will take about 6 weeks to do it, I hope she makes it! I don't think I would have ever set out to do something like that.
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Again, it worked PERFECTLY for a few months and now it's ok but one in 100 shifts drops a chain.
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It's a clamp on. I know I aligned the FD so it was totally parallel with the chainrings and the orange sticker lined up with the chainring teeth, then set the funny screw to have the two white lines meet (is that what is the positioning screw?) and the limit screws all before the cable was connected/tensioned.
Again, it worked PERFECTLY for a few months and now it's ok but one in 100 shifts drops a chain.
Again, it worked PERFECTLY for a few months and now it's ok but one in 100 shifts drops a chain.
May not apply though since you have a clamp on. "Stabilizing" screw is what I meant.
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I don't know as I have not had the problem you are describing. I would make sure the inner limit screw is adjusted as precisely as possible.
My big frustration is the FD rubbing on the chain despite the trim positions. That said, I avoid big/big and small/small. I'm always having to make little adjustments to keep it where I like it with respect to the most frequently used sections of the cassette.
My big frustration is the FD rubbing on the chain despite the trim positions. That said, I avoid big/big and small/small. I'm always having to make little adjustments to keep it where I like it with respect to the most frequently used sections of the cassette.
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Two days with the fam, doing vacay stuff and I'm exhausted. My wife and her brother just left to go back in. I will next see them tomorrow afternoon if all goes well*
* The day before departure the husband tested positive, and was under the weather. Mom and toddler were clean. After much gnashing of teeth and hand-wringing, they decided to to ignore it, and they boarded the plane Friday morning. The beach house is effectively an open space, but.....
This morning the toddler had a fever and went down for his nap early. We're guessing Mom will test him, but vamos a ver.
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* The day before departure the husband tested positive, and was under the weather. Mom and toddler were clean. After much gnashing of teeth and hand-wringing, they decided to to ignore it, and they boarded the plane Friday morning. The beach house is effectively an open space, but.....
This morning the toddler had a fever and went down for his nap early. We're guessing Mom will test him, but vamos a ver.
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All this modern bike drivetrain woe I am reading makes me want to go back to this:
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I did, but I got it for cheaper than that. Mind you, it's 27 years old, but Ti is allegedly forever, so........
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It's a clamp on. I know I aligned the FD so it was totally parallel with the chainrings and the orange sticker lined up with the chainring teeth, then set the funny screw to have the two white lines meet (is that what is the positioning screw?) and the limit screws all before the cable was connected/tensioned.
Again, it worked PERFECTLY for a few months and now it's ok but one in 100 shifts drops a chain.
Again, it worked PERFECTLY for a few months and now it's ok but one in 100 shifts drops a chain.
I'd go through the limit screws again. Whenever I've had chain drop, it's because I set the limit screws too open.
I had two chainsuck incidents on the Ritchey recently. Curiously, they happened at EXACTLY the same place on my ride, a place where the road goes from descending to ascending, enough so that, combined with the headwind, I run out of gears in the big ring. I suspect the problem could be that I have the unfortunate tendency to shift front and rear at the same time, which is a no-no. Both times the chain locked up, but I backpedaled half a turn and it resolved. There are not enough miles on those rings, or the chain, for it to be wear on either.
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When I was 7, Mom and Dad bought me a bike. It was just a bike, you know - frame with two sets of curving tubes for the top tube, 24" wheels, fenders, coaster brake, etc. By the time I was 10, I DESPERATELY wanted one of those fancy bikes like the ones in the ad above. So, Dad bought a banana seat and an 'ape hanger' handlebar. I was a little disappointed, but I rode that thing all over town.
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