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deepbluex posted 1 year ago.
The art of truing a wheel seems like dark sorcery to me.
That and developing an understanding of how to adjust a derailleur. When to just tension the cable tensionner nut as opposed to adjusting the 2 adjustment screws?
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bluebirdbiker posted 1 year ago.
deepbluex;51842 wrote:
The art of truing a wheel seems like dark sorcery to me.That and developing an understanding of how to adjust a derailleur. When to just tension the cable tensionner nut as opposed to adjusting the 2 adjustment screws?
Ok. just an FYI. The cable tensioner is there to set the derailleur in position (fine tune it) so the chain fits well into the cog of a cassette after you shift the gear from one cog on the cassette to another.
The two little screws on the derailleur are there to set/adjust how far the derailleur moves on the largest (closer to the wheel/spokes) and smallest cog (off the cassette) of the cassette.
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Triguy98 posted 1 year ago.
bluebirdbiker;51843 wrote:
Ok. just an FYI. The cable tensioner is there to set the derailleur in position (fine tune it) so the chain fits well into the cog of a cassette after you shift the gear from one cog on the cassette to another.The two little screws on the derailleur are there to set/adjust how far the derailleur moves on the largest (closer to the wheel/spokes) and smallest cog (off the cassette) of the cassette.
Or, put another way, the limit screws tell the derailluer where its limits are (where to stop) and the barrel adjuster tell it how much it move within those limits.
Once your limits are set, any ine tuning should be done with the barrel adjusters.
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JamieM posted 1 year ago.
deepbluex;51842 wrote:
The art of truing a wheel seems like dark sorcery to me.
I've been building my own wheels, and wheels for selected friends, for years now. Nothing to it. Takes practice and patience more than anything else. And a good spoke wrench. You can rig a truing stand and the other tools pretty easily, but you can't do without a good spoke wrench. So make the $8 investment if you're going to work on your wheels.
And check out "The Bicycle Wheel" by Jobst Brandt a great reference. For a quicker, but still valuable reference try sheldonbrown.com.
Just out of curiousity, what are things that you (the mechanically challenged) would like to be able to fix, replace, adjust .....on your/a bike? Specifics, not like "tune it up"
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