When shifting gears on your bike becomes sloppy or sluggish—and you're sure your derailleurs are tuned correctly—or when you try to make a shift and the chain rattles and takes a few pedal revolutions to move into the desired gear, consider replacing the chain and cassette...
Here’s how the two systems differ: a cassette is a series of gears that slides onto a freewheel unit. This is a better system because it allows you to replace worn sprockets without having to replace the freewheeling component (freehub body). A freewheel on the other hand, contains bot...
Types of Bike Chains Generally, bike chains are defined by the number of cogs on your rear cassette. So if you have eight gears on your back wheel, you should be using an eight-speed chain. 12 gears gets a 12-speed chain. That’s because the number of gears the chain shifts between...
on your bike without having to replace your cassette or chainrings. For the majority ofdrivetrains, that is far more economical than having to replace the cassette and chainrings every time you need a new chain. This is especially true when considering the cost of a cassette on some group...
The front derailleur is the mechanism that shifts the chain on a bike with more than one front chain-ring. Its function is to move the chain from side to side between the front chain rings to shift gears; however, it has to do this with the top, taut portion of the chain. There are...
Today we’re going to replace a common rear cassette cluster. It’s actually quite a straight forward procedure, but you will need a couple of special bike tools for the job: achain whipand alock ring tool. Some lock ring tools have a built in handle, but the one we are using today...
My wife's road bike has Shimano Sora shifters with a triple front derailleur (stock). The thumb switch on the front shifter is VERY hard to use and she can't do it when she's riding. I did a full adjustment of the front derailleur but it didn't change anything. One thing that I...
My wife's road bike has Shimano Sora shifters with a triple front derailleur (stock). The thumb switch on the front shifter is VERY hard to use and she can't do it when she's riding. I did a full adjustment of the front derailleur but it didn't change anything. One thing that I...
Hello - new owner with an How to Operate the bike question. Hopefully, this is easily answered I Bought this bike a few weeks ago - Tested many bikes and finally landed on this particular Santa Monica. However, got busy with Christmas shopping, Life, and not so great weather days distract...
that will make the problem clearer and lead to possible solutions. For instance. suppose Sam decided that his bike does not work because there is something wrong with the gear wheels. At this time. he can look in his bicycle repair book and read about gears. He can talk to his f[...