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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]
