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Greg Tokarski
Guest
Hi all.
I got GaryFisher Cake 2dlx like 3 months ago. Well, I did not have a
chance to ride it much for the 1st month, but by now I am having all
sorts of problems with shifting and chain falling off.
The chain usually falls off when climbing and when I hit some kind of
little bump... Oh, and I have to be on the mid or smallest ring in the
front - which of course is always the case while climbing.
Sometimes the chain falls off (always towards the frame - left, which
I am sure everybody guessed) when I am going down hill - usually when
I am not pedaling, but just going down and hit a bump.
I am pretty sure it's the full suspension that's doing it.
At this point the place I got the bike at worked with me a lot, but
without actually one of them taking the bike on the trail I doubt if
they figure it out. We just replaced front derailleur with XT (used to
be LX) - that certainly improved shifting (had problems shifting to
the bigger ring on the front) and adjusting tension of the chain (by
shortening it and adjusting the spring) helped a lot.. but.. still I
loose the chain, useally when it's really very inconvenient.
I do realize that my skill is maybe not that great, but if I pay that
kind of $ for a bike, it certainly should not have issues that my old
(8+ yrs) Novara did not have.
Does anyone have ideas or suggestion? Could there be an actual issue
with this specific GF bike? I did not talk to GF people yet.. I think
I might have to as well, but I think you pple may have a lot of good
input too.
Any ideas will be very much appreciated.
Thx.
Greg T.
[email protected]
I got GaryFisher Cake 2dlx like 3 months ago. Well, I did not have a
chance to ride it much for the 1st month, but by now I am having all
sorts of problems with shifting and chain falling off.
The chain usually falls off when climbing and when I hit some kind of
little bump... Oh, and I have to be on the mid or smallest ring in the
front - which of course is always the case while climbing.
Sometimes the chain falls off (always towards the frame - left, which
I am sure everybody guessed) when I am going down hill - usually when
I am not pedaling, but just going down and hit a bump.
I am pretty sure it's the full suspension that's doing it.
At this point the place I got the bike at worked with me a lot, but
without actually one of them taking the bike on the trail I doubt if
they figure it out. We just replaced front derailleur with XT (used to
be LX) - that certainly improved shifting (had problems shifting to
the bigger ring on the front) and adjusting tension of the chain (by
shortening it and adjusting the spring) helped a lot.. but.. still I
loose the chain, useally when it's really very inconvenient.
I do realize that my skill is maybe not that great, but if I pay that
kind of $ for a bike, it certainly should not have issues that my old
(8+ yrs) Novara did not have.
Does anyone have ideas or suggestion? Could there be an actual issue
with this specific GF bike? I did not talk to GF people yet.. I think
I might have to as well, but I think you pple may have a lot of good
input too.
Any ideas will be very much appreciated.
Thx.
Greg T.
[email protected]
