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Nate Nagel
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Got my Flight Deck (9-speed version, not the latest one) installed and
also did a little maintenance (cleaned the old chain in a can of carb
dip, cleaned off the sprockets with some Brakleen, shop rags, and
Q-tips, examined old chain, looked at horrible patch job PO had done
with two completely different brands of chain, which was hidden by
layers of black grease, went to LBS, bought a shiny new SRAM chain...
sigh... pretty soon I'm going to stop spending money and simply ride...
at least according to my tape measure it wasn't stretched enough to
notice, and it was working perfectly well, just greasy and nasty) anyway
everything seems to be completely copacetic other than I have not yet
lubed the shifter cables and the shifting is still slightly weird, but
I'm hoping that a little tweaking will get it right. One issue - I
installed the FD last night but I didn't get a chance to try a ride
until this evening. I rode around for about a mile, and the FD never
woke up. I pulled into my driveway, started playing with the buttons,
eventually after punching one of the buttons on the back of the FD it
woke up and worked normally for another short ride. I thought it was
supposed to wake up automatically when you started to ride? I've got
the magnet set about 2mm away from the sensor... or is there an
undocumented procedure for waking it up? Simply hitting either button
on the brifters didn't do anything, not sure why hitting the one on the
unit did the trick.
thanks,
nate
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also did a little maintenance (cleaned the old chain in a can of carb
dip, cleaned off the sprockets with some Brakleen, shop rags, and
Q-tips, examined old chain, looked at horrible patch job PO had done
with two completely different brands of chain, which was hidden by
layers of black grease, went to LBS, bought a shiny new SRAM chain...
sigh... pretty soon I'm going to stop spending money and simply ride...
at least according to my tape measure it wasn't stretched enough to
notice, and it was working perfectly well, just greasy and nasty) anyway
everything seems to be completely copacetic other than I have not yet
lubed the shifter cables and the shifting is still slightly weird, but
I'm hoping that a little tweaking will get it right. One issue - I
installed the FD last night but I didn't get a chance to try a ride
until this evening. I rode around for about a mile, and the FD never
woke up. I pulled into my driveway, started playing with the buttons,
eventually after punching one of the buttons on the back of the FD it
woke up and worked normally for another short ride. I thought it was
supposed to wake up automatically when you started to ride? I've got
the magnet set about 2mm away from the sensor... or is there an
undocumented procedure for waking it up? Simply hitting either button
on the brifters didn't do anything, not sure why hitting the one on the
unit did the trick.
thanks,
nate
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replace "roosters" with "cox" to reply.
http://members.cox.net/njnagel