Check your dropouts...
09-14-07, 08:54 PM
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Check your dropouts...
Just stripped my Orca frame to ship it to Calfee to repair the cracked seat tube...
I had some shifting issues, most of which were resolved with a new chain. The primary issue was having to shift twice from the smallest cog to the next, and sometimes having to upshift twice and then back down to get the right gear. Once I was in the right gear everythnig was fine. I found out the allen bolts that hold in the replaceable dropouts were a touch loose. Must have had some bearing on the remaining slight shifting issues.
Check your dropouts next time you clean your drive train. I never thought about how much stress those bolts take until I looked at them up close.
I had some shifting issues, most of which were resolved with a new chain. The primary issue was having to shift twice from the smallest cog to the next, and sometimes having to upshift twice and then back down to get the right gear. Once I was in the right gear everythnig was fine. I found out the allen bolts that hold in the replaceable dropouts were a touch loose. Must have had some bearing on the remaining slight shifting issues.
Check your dropouts next time you clean your drive train. I never thought about how much stress those bolts take until I looked at them up close.
09-14-07, 09:46 PM
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Making a kilometer blurry
...of course some of us have brazed dropouts 
