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[edat]

I'm 71, have an old Fugi S-12 frame built up with scrounged components. My biking friends helped me out with it when my Paramount was stolen out of my front hallway.

Recently refurbed it with new wheels and changers. Everything works, pretty happy with it but I'm having trouble with the front shifting. The chainrings seem to be too far apart, the ten-speed chain shifts in between them and slips.

I rode when I was young, did a little racing around Columbus Ohio. Had a Frejus trackbike and a Bianchi Specialissima roadbike among others. I was one of the early riders on the TOSRV in Ohio, there were only six of us riding on Easter weekend in a blizzard.

 

[HLaB]

 

[Deleted member 1258]

. Check your cable tension. I had the same problem on my Eastway, 10 speed Tiagra, a few weeks ago, I solved it by slackening of the cable adjuster on the top of the downtube.

 

[User65906]

Hi edat, seems like your new here, you are welcome, hope you enjoy the company.
That is terrible, someone taking your bike, sad and sick world, some people care about nothing only themselves, stealing instead of working for what they want.

Remain encouraged, I do not have any advise regarding your front shifter issue, I am blessed that I change my bike often and rarely have to sort anything out, I have indexed my bikes before, always do in fact just to make sure they are the best they can be regarding shifting and staying on.
Have you two or three chain rings, the distance between the rings is probably fine, but the adjustment to pull the chain sideways would seem to be not travelling far enough thus the chain has no option but to drop between the ring it came off and the ring it can not get over to, look to see if the derailleur is not going too far towards the ring the chain does it on, it needs to push the chain over to the small ring and no more, so it has enough scope to be pulled towards the larger ring and not just stop short enough to cause the chain not to engage with the bigger ring, there are adjustments for this, more like stoppers, they stop the derailleur from going to far towards the small ring, and also too far over by the large ring, the derailleur also needs to be at the right height on the seat tube, just about 2 or 3 mm above the large ring. ike stated above, ensure your cable is not the issue, too tight or slack. Others will come along who know more than I do, and hopefully you will get sorted.
It is also better to set the front derailleur first before indexing the rear.

 

[lane]

Hi and welcome. Sorry you had your bike stolen. Hope you get the new one sorted - I can't advise I'm afraid but there are people on here who can.

 

[cyberknight]

Have you checked the chain rings are the right way around? ride mate had a similar problem where the chain was dropping between the chain rings and it turned out the inner was put on the wrong way around.

 

[welsh dragon]

Hello and welcome

 

[raleighnut]

 

[Fonze]

Hello there ..