ptmurphy

I have been searching the archives of this forum and the newsgroups for an answer to this with no luck. I actually bought a book on bicycle maintenance to try and fix it as well - no luck.

Anyway, I am having problems shifing from the small chain ring to the middle one. When I click the lever over the chain moves over but does not catch on the middle chain ring. It just hangs in limbo making a buch of racket.

Now, one of two things happens - 1) I hit the lever again and the chain immediately goes to the big chain ring, or 2) I keep pedaling, trying to get it to engage the middle chain ring and the chain falls off around the bottom bracket.

The bike is a new (400 miles) Cannondale R700. It has done this from the beginning. The bike shop says there is nothing wrong. The maintenance book only talk about outer adjustments (middle to big and middle to small limit adjustments) which are fine.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated on this one.

Thanks,

PTM