Road Cycling - flight deck question

i got a new bike 2 days ago with the flight deck...heres the problem. my bike is a triple and the flight deck is set to triple (3 chainrings appear on the screen). when i shift into my 52 chainring though, the speedo does not pick it up and my cadence is therefore thrown off. can i do something or should i take it to the shop? thanks a lot.

i got a new bike 2 days ago with the flight deck...heres the problem. my bike is a triple and the flight deck is set to triple (3 chainrings appear on the screen). when i shift into my 52 chainring though, the speedo does not pick it up and my cadence is therefore thrown off. can i do something or should i take it to the shop? thanks a lot.

Sounds to me like it was set up wrong. If the LBS installed it, take it back and have them fix it. If you installed it, go back over everything, redoing it all.

I have a Flight Deck on my one week old Lemond Zurich and the only problems I have had, other than being hamfisted and resetting it, is every once in a while, the speedometer just stops and the ride time and trip distance stop. It takes some manipulation to get it going again.

One thing I learned is to stop when manipulating! I kind of fell over trying to do it today! Scraped the hell out of my new DuraAce pedal.

Are you saying that the gear indicator nevers shows you in the big ring? If so, it sounds to me like the shifter interface may be the culprit. I would take it back to the bike shop. Even if the computer was programmed wrong, you should still see the proper gear bubbles light up albiet your cadence will be off. If it's just a matter of the computer calculating against the wrong ring size then you can change that in the programming. If you don't have a copy of the manual yourself, you can find it Shimano's website (http://bike.shimano.com/Computer/index.asp). Be sure you pick the appropriate manual for the model of FlightDeck you have.

If the Flight Deck is properly programmed for three chainrings (i.e.: three chainring bubbles in the Flight Deck display), but when you shift to 52 chainring, the Flight Deck display does not indicate that the chain is on the 52 chainring, then you may have contact problem between the contacts in the left shift lever and the contacts of the Flight Deck’s signal cable module. This can be fixed by inserting a ‘sticker’ in the sensor module.

Here is how. Remove the handlebar tape, lever hood and the signal cable module. Inside the body of the lever is a white rubber sensor pad. The contacts in this sensor pad make contact with the Flight Desk’s signal cable module (or at least they should). The sensor pad is loose inside the body of the lever but attached to a ribbon cable. There is sufficient slack in the ribbon cable to allow you to remove the sensor pad a few inches from the lever body. This will make installing the sticker easier. With the Flight Deck manual, you should have received a small yellow sheet with four small die-cut squares. Each of these die-cut squares is a sticker. When you remove one of the squares or stickers from the yellow sheet, you will find one side is sticky, thus the term ‘sticker’. Using a pair of tweezers or needle-nose pliers (or your fingers, if they are small enough), place one of the stickers between the contacts and the rubber sensor pad. I put the sticky side of the sticker toward the rubber sensor pad. Replace the rubber sensor pad in the lever body and tuck the slack ribbon cable in the space provided for it. Then reinstall the Flight Deck signal cable module, the lever hood and handlebar tape. The Flight Deck gear indicator should function properly. Good Luck!

-Spoke

If the lbs put them on,take it back.

When I picked up my Flitedeck last year it was programmed all wrong. I reprogrammed it myself and once you learn how its a piece of cake. The instruciton manual is very bad though so you have to play around with it. If you need to change your mileage on the odometer for instance, you have to reporgram the unit, which once you know how like I said is easy, so worth know how to program it. Start by clearing everything then you go in sequence.

The battery in my wireless fork unit crapped out after 3 rides. Didn't bother getting a new battery from the dealer, just went to Wal-Mart. It lasted all of last season and so far this season it's been fine.

My Flight Deck has been acting up, stopping completely during rides. The clock and odometer still worked, but everything else quit. I had to reset to get it going again. Yesterday, it just flat quit, and nothing worked. In fact, it just flashed, and went to set-up mode.

It always works when I first start out, but after about 15 minutes, it goes screwy. Long story short, I went to the LBS, they looked at it, and gave me a new display unit. They said if that didn't clear up the problem, to bring it back and they would check the pick-ups.

The owner is a shrewd businessman who knows how to take care of his customers.