I have never had quite that dramatic and experience from the stand to the road under load, but guessing, trial and error have both been a big part of my learning about bikes. The net is a wonderful thing.
On Nov 22, 10:28 am, Juhani <juhani.lait...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems like the shifter is working now! :) > > Almost too embarrassing to tell how it went. I never got the shifting > adjusted while the bike was in the stand (actually 2 different > stands). Trust me, I tried everything. That’s why I never tried it > loaded - the shifting seemed far too nasty for that. > > Then I went for a ride today and headed to the hills nearby. I was > riding with friction shifting, but thought I’d try the indexing just > for fun for those gears that worked. I actually read the link that > Eddie mailed (Thanks Eddie!). The article said “Most bikes shift > differently in the stand than they do under load.” So I gave it a try. > > To my great surprise, the shifting was completely different under > load. So I actually got the shifting adjusted so that it works fine on > all gears. It was much easier than while the bike was in the stand. > > I couldn’t hear any noise or anything from the gears. But it was very > windy and hard to hear anything, so we’ll see. All the gears seemed to > be allright though. > > It’s still a mystery to me why it didn’t work in the stand, but I > guess it’s two completely different things to use it under load or > unloaded. > > Thanks for all the help! > > If you have any reflections around this, please let me know. > > Regards, Juhani -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
