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How to Fix Improper Bicycle Shifting

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Summary: Learn how to fix improper shifting on your bicycle with expert repair tips like adjusting the cable to get the correct tension, in this free bicycle repair video clip.

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Parker Ramspott Parker Ramspott has owned and operated a bicycle store in Amherst, Massachusetts for over 20 years. This experience combined with his skill as a mechanic mak... read more

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How to Fix Improper Bicycle Shifting

Great deal of shifting problems that people complain about are due to cable adjustment being incorrect. Very often I will have a customer come in and say it didn't shift to a particular gear so I had made an adjustment on the dérailleur. Stay away from touching the screws. Anybody who tells you that adjusting these screws is the first thing you do to make a bike shift correctly is to the high low adjustments on the front dérailleur or high low adjustments on the rear dérailleur, they don't change by themselves. No little imps show up and make adjustments on your bike unless you really have bad luck and maybe you do. But ninety-nine percent of the time poor shifting is due to the fact that the cable is not correctly tensioned. Shifting is controlled by a lever, in this case it is a twist grip shifter, sometimes they are trigger shifters. If the cable that links this shift lever to either of the dérailleurs is not correctly tensioned. What you do appear is not going to make this or this move far enough and give you a proper shift. For example; on this bike we are pedaling it, one click does nothing. It does not mean you need to go for one of these screws to make it move further in one direction, you will only get in trouble.

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