Adjusting road bike front dérailleur
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Adjusting road bike front dérailleur
Looking at videos, it is still unclear to me how to use the high and low screws adjustment screws for the front road bike derailler. When the chain is on the small cog in front and large cog in rear, how do I position the cage with regards to the chain. They books and videos say to leave 1-2 mm clearance between the cage and chain, but they don't clarify if that tolerance is for inner edge of the cage near the wheel or outer edge of the cage near the pedals.
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I have a similar proble with a road bike triple front mech adjustment. I can set the limit screw so that the inner cog travel is restricted fine with a fraction of clearance but when I move the rear mech out to test all the gears it rubs on the outside of the front mech. Basically it seems that there isn't enou room within the confines of the front mech (shimano sora) to take the movement across all nine of the rear sprockets. Is this normal or can I do something about it?
Any help really appreciated folks! It's driving me mad!
Any help really appreciated folks! It's driving me mad!
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I have a similar proble with a road bike triple front mech adjustment. I can set the limit screw so that the inner cog travel is restricted fine with a fraction of clearance but when I move the rear mech out to test all the gears it rubs on the outside of the front mech. Basically it seems that there isn't enou room within the confines of the front mech (shimano sora) to take the movement across all nine of the rear sprockets. Is this normal or can I do something about it?
Any help really appreciated folks! It's driving me mad!
Any help really appreciated folks! It's driving me mad!
If so, you are "cross-chaining" which is not recommended since it wears the chain and maybe cogs very quickly. And there is no reason to; you can get the same gearing with the middle chainring, albeit on a different rear cog.
Chart your gears using a gear calculator; I like:
https://home.earthlink.net/~mike.sherman/shift.html
Enter the tooth counts for YOUR bike and the charts will show you how the gearing overlaps between inner, middle and outer chainrings.
-TH
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I have a similar proble with a road bike triple front mech adjustment. I can set the limit screw so that the inner cog travel is restricted fine with a fraction of clearance but when I move the rear mech out to test all the gears it rubs on the outside of the front mech. Basically it seems that there isn't enou room within the confines of the front mech (shimano sora) to take the movement across all nine of the rear sprockets. Is this normal or can I do something about it?
Any help really appreciated folks! It's driving me mad!
Any help really appreciated folks! It's driving me mad!
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I have a similar proble with a road bike triple front mech adjustment. I can set the limit screw so that the inner cog travel is restricted fine with a fraction of clearance but when I move the rear mech out to test all the gears it rubs on the outside of the front mech. Basically it seems that there isn't enou room within the confines of the front mech (shimano sora) to take the movement across all nine of the rear sprockets. Is this normal or can I do something about it?
Any help really appreciated folks! It's driving me mad!
Any help really appreciated folks! It's driving me mad!
2. Most integrated shift levers have a trim option to work around the problem. I grabbed this from a Shimano Sora manual: