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Per ElmsäTer
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I just changed my chain as it was worn down to the 1.0 mark according to my Park Tool chain gauge.
When I took my bike out for a ride I thought at first the chain was skipping on the cogs which it
shouldn't as the casette have only gone this one chain that just was replaced according to good
practise. When I inspected closer what was happening, that when in the small ring up front ( 26, 36,
48 Nexave) the chain would start moving to the middle ring and then drop back, which kind of felt
like skipping a cog. This usually didn't happen until I was on the lowest gears. Then today the
chain started going off the little ring towards the inside when I put pressure on the pedals. Long
after I geared down. Like I'd see a steep hill and drop my chain to the small ring and start
climbing. After maybe 150 m of climbing when I was going slow in the lowest gears the chain would
just slide off to the inside of the front granny ring???? It felt really weird and I can't figure
out what is doing these strange things. The derailleur itself looks like it is centered pretty much
over each ring and the limits are set. Ie the limits are set so that I don't overshift my chain
going down to the sall ring. It seems that it kinda climbs out.
The bike is a 2001 Gary Fisher Utopia, hybrid The FD and rings are Nexave The new chain is Shimano
Deore The RD is Shimano XT and The cogset is 9 speed SRAM 11-31
Is this simply FD adjustments or is there something else spooking me? Why did it start when I
switched chains? Front rings have never been changed and are about three years old and 5000 km.
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Perre
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When I took my bike out for a ride I thought at first the chain was skipping on the cogs which it
shouldn't as the casette have only gone this one chain that just was replaced according to good
practise. When I inspected closer what was happening, that when in the small ring up front ( 26, 36,
48 Nexave) the chain would start moving to the middle ring and then drop back, which kind of felt
like skipping a cog. This usually didn't happen until I was on the lowest gears. Then today the
chain started going off the little ring towards the inside when I put pressure on the pedals. Long
after I geared down. Like I'd see a steep hill and drop my chain to the small ring and start
climbing. After maybe 150 m of climbing when I was going slow in the lowest gears the chain would
just slide off to the inside of the front granny ring???? It felt really weird and I can't figure
out what is doing these strange things. The derailleur itself looks like it is centered pretty much
over each ring and the limits are set. Ie the limits are set so that I don't overshift my chain
going down to the sall ring. It seems that it kinda climbs out.
The bike is a 2001 Gary Fisher Utopia, hybrid The FD and rings are Nexave The new chain is Shimano
Deore The RD is Shimano XT and The cogset is 9 speed SRAM 11-31
Is this simply FD adjustments or is there something else spooking me? Why did it start when I
switched chains? Front rings have never been changed and are about three years old and 5000 km.
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Perre
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