Hi,

I have a slight problem. After I cleaned my entire drive-train I noticed that my front derailleur shifting was not as smooth as before so I decided to try and tune it, this is where the problem starts.

I completely messed up the tuning and now can not get smooth shifting at all. I have have googled till my fingers bleed and have tried to follow countless videos on youtube, ehow etc and still no joy. I did manage to tune the front derailleur so that I can shift to each ring but, when I try to shift from the middle ring to the biggest it shifts but it feels like there is so much tention that I may snap the shift lever if I keep riding like that. Also, when I shift back, biggest to middle, it snaps back so quick it sounds unhealthy.

If it wasn't for the high tention it would be fine as everything is aligned and every gear is accessable. Please help, it has taken me 9 hours to get this far and don't really want to play around with it again until I'm a little wiser.

Any ideas hiow to relax the tension without messing the whole thing up again ?

Thanks for reading