Changing the front gear

[Sameer Shisodia]

Its still not the smoothest change in the world. I'm doing something wrong, surely.
Pedal hard/easy when changing ? Thumb rules ?
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[Rohan Kini]

pedal easy. And push the shifter a little beyond the click sound. It should shift like a hot knife thru butter.
If not, you need to tune up the shifting

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[Balu]

The front derailler uses brute force - this is a lil' different from
the way the rear derailler works... so you do need to exert a little
more force especially when moving to a larger chain ring. Keep
pedaling and as Rohan says move a tad beyond where you hear a click.

Balu

On Jul 7, 10:45 am, "Rohan Kini" <rohan.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> pedal easy. And push the shifter a little beyond the click sound. It should
> shift like a hot knife thru butter.
> If not, you need to tune up the shifting
>

> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Sameer Shisodia <get.sam...@gmail.com>

[Shree Kumar]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Sameer Shisodia <get.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

Its still not the smoothest change in the world. I'm doing something wrong, surely.
Pedal hard/easy when changing ? Thumb rules ?
- sameer

Which bike ?

[Rohan Kini]

Merida Sub 40 .. right ?

[Shree Kumar]

Must also ask - what kind of shifter  :-) Too much variety now-a-days ;-)

Quick & dirty : turning/pushing the shifter a little more may give you results - just a workaround, not a solution :-)

It always pays to anticipate shifts (especially front ones) & do them a little in advance...

[Sameer Shisodia]

Yep.
Thanks for all the inputs, will try all these out on the way back home, and then turn some screws :)
sameer

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Rohan Kini <rohan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Merida Sub 40 .. right ?

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Shree Kumar <shree...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Rohan Kini]

no no ..
Pushing the shifter a bit more if not a workaround .. well .. depends on how much you have to push :)

There is this sweet combination of shifting a gear and applying less pressure on the pedals that happens intuitively after something that causes a beautiful shift ! Till then pushing the shifter a 'tad' bit more makes shifting all the more smoother :)

Most of these bikes nowadays come with the stock shimano fireshifters EF50 or something ..

Yup. Anticipation helps loads !

[Rohan Kini]

no .. dont turn screws. The screws are ment for limiting the shifters and my guess is that they have been screwd on fine !
You just need to play a bit with the indexing.. and thats going to be the small barrel near the shifter on the handle bar !