OK, riding the trails Thurs. evening and cranking hard to get up a hill and broke my chain. No Biggie right? Bought a new chain and was putting it on and noticed when the chain became unraveled it broke 4 spokes. crap. pulled the broken spokes out and checked the gears and they are not shifting correctly. I took a crash course on front derailleur tuning and did exactly what the video said and wah lah. Bikes f'ed up. It will not go in the smaller sprocket so I can adjust the cable or anything.
What the video said was to put the chain on the lg sprkt in rear and small in frt, loosen the cable and adjust low screw to get approx 2mm distance of chain from rail then tension cable and reattach cable. OK, took bike for ride and first few adjustments going from lo to hi gear it appeared to be ok and then it just quit working. The way it is now is if I have the chain on mid sprkt frt and rr everything appears to be lined up but there is alot of slack in the cable and I cannot get an allen wrench to it to loosen or tighten it.
Did I not tighten the cable enough? Is there a site I can go to for more help?
What do I do from here? I really hate to spend 75 bux for a tune up but may have to.
anyone?
Thx
What the video said was to put the chain on the lg sprkt in rear and small in frt, loosen the cable and adjust low screw to get approx 2mm distance of chain from rail then tension cable and reattach cable. OK, took bike for ride and first few adjustments going from lo to hi gear it appeared to be ok and then it just quit working. The way it is now is if I have the chain on mid sprkt frt and rr everything appears to be lined up but there is alot of slack in the cable and I cannot get an allen wrench to it to loosen or tighten it.
Did I not tighten the cable enough? Is there a site I can go to for more help?
What do I do from here? I really hate to spend 75 bux for a tune up but may have to.
anyone?
Thx