Hiya all,
I recently bought a new mountain bike. I took it out along some of the Glasgow tow paths today, to see how I did and everything was fine except that the gears kept slipping as I was cycling.
I've noticed that they only slipped when the chain was on the smallest rear gears (5 & 6), but I'm not sure if it was the front or rear gears slipping. I think it was the front gears but as I say, I'm not totally sure.
I thought it might be the force that was being exerted on them, as I'm a big guy (so I could understand that the teeth of the gears would be under a lot of pressure), but the gears continued to slip when I was travelling at a fairly constant speed on level paths.
I talked to some guys at Halford's and they told me to tighten one of the screws on the front derailleur until I felt resistance. However I tried that and all it did was stopped me from shifting up into the 2nd and 3rd frontal gears.
I'll be on pretty regularly so if you have any questions about the situation, or any things that you'd like me to try or find out, just let me know.
So I'm totally stumped, and any help that anyone can give me would be VERY gratefully accepted!
Cheers.
I recently bought a new mountain bike. I took it out along some of the Glasgow tow paths today, to see how I did and everything was fine except that the gears kept slipping as I was cycling.
I've noticed that they only slipped when the chain was on the smallest rear gears (5 & 6), but I'm not sure if it was the front or rear gears slipping. I think it was the front gears but as I say, I'm not totally sure.
I thought it might be the force that was being exerted on them, as I'm a big guy (so I could understand that the teeth of the gears would be under a lot of pressure), but the gears continued to slip when I was travelling at a fairly constant speed on level paths.
I talked to some guys at Halford's and they told me to tighten one of the screws on the front derailleur until I felt resistance. However I tried that and all it did was stopped me from shifting up into the 2nd and 3rd frontal gears.
I'll be on pretty regularly so if you have any questions about the situation, or any things that you'd like me to try or find out, just let me know.
So I'm totally stumped, and any help that anyone can give me would be VERY gratefully accepted!
Cheers.