G'day,
I brand spankin new here, and got a question.
about 8 weeks ago, i bought myself a new Apollo LSX 1.0 bike.
This bike came with shimano rapid fire gears.
These gears struck me as strange as they consist of 2 quite HUGE idler gears. so yeh 1st ques is; Whats the deal with these HUGE gears, not to mension why the hell one is bright red :S
2nd ques, is that the deraliure hangs down a long way. This would not really worry much, but i feel it is unnaturally low, and there for if u ciould picture it in your mind, the chain comes off the back sprokets at almost right angles to the ground, and i feel this may be causing a casual slip. not to mension the low hangin deraliure arm prohibits me from goin "off-road" as it clips rocks etc. that would normally be no problem.
Would a longer chain help this? or any ideas?
Any response would be sooper,
Cheers, Will
I brand spankin new here, and got a question.
about 8 weeks ago, i bought myself a new Apollo LSX 1.0 bike.
This bike came with shimano rapid fire gears.
These gears struck me as strange as they consist of 2 quite HUGE idler gears. so yeh 1st ques is; Whats the deal with these HUGE gears, not to mension why the hell one is bright red :S
2nd ques, is that the deraliure hangs down a long way. This would not really worry much, but i feel it is unnaturally low, and there for if u ciould picture it in your mind, the chain comes off the back sprokets at almost right angles to the ground, and i feel this may be causing a casual slip. not to mension the low hangin deraliure arm prohibits me from goin "off-road" as it clips rocks etc. that would normally be no problem.
Would a longer chain help this? or any ideas?
Any response would be sooper,
Cheers, Will