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Old 04-30-06 | 10:44 PM
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mecheng
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From: AZ
Hi beef,
The parktool website has it all on there. What I did was keeping the chain on smallest chainring/largest sprocket (so your cable is relatively slack; consequently, you don't need to loosen the deraileur cable bolt), loosened the deraileur holding screws (but not enough for the FD to freely move up and down).
Then I pressed on the FD cage to move it outside, noted the large chainring-cage clearance (which was too large in my case), and slid the deraileur down the tube a little bit. Keep iterating untill you get a penny-thin clearance between the chainring teeth and the FD cage.

After I got the height figured out, I unhooked the cable, adjusted the low-speed screw (still in the small front/large rear combo), tensioned the cable back, secured it, shifted to the big chainring and small sprocket, adjusted the high speed screw and that was that. Checked across all the gears, seems to work just fine.
Good luck!

BTW, I also meant sidewind. Riding on a flat straight at about 10 degrees to the vertical is a weird sensation
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