bawbag
Maximum Pace
- Mar 20, 2013
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Hello dear people of the internet.
One came with the bike frame I just got. It was covered in grime, so I decided to clean it...
All was going well until I decided to overhaul the jockey wheels. Unbeknownst to me, the screw on the upper jockey wheel is the one which also holds the cage and the tensioning spring onto the derailleur. It wasn't a problem as I could see how it went back together.
Until I tried to put it back together.
Every time I try to tension the spring, it gets part way round before the end of the spring jumps out of the hole in the cage. There must be some way to do it, but I haven't a clue. I've hunted for instructions online, but they're all for 10s derailleurs, not the "vintage" 8s varieties, so the instructions are different enough that they don't really work.
Grrrrrrr. I guess it doesn't matter too much at the moment - I got wiped out by a Friday night oyaji on his mamachari and am now the proud owner of a fractured clavicle and elbow. No cycling for me for the next month at least.
One came with the bike frame I just got. It was covered in grime, so I decided to clean it...
All was going well until I decided to overhaul the jockey wheels. Unbeknownst to me, the screw on the upper jockey wheel is the one which also holds the cage and the tensioning spring onto the derailleur. It wasn't a problem as I could see how it went back together.
Until I tried to put it back together.
Every time I try to tension the spring, it gets part way round before the end of the spring jumps out of the hole in the cage. There must be some way to do it, but I haven't a clue. I've hunted for instructions online, but they're all for 10s derailleurs, not the "vintage" 8s varieties, so the instructions are different enough that they don't really work.
Grrrrrrr. I guess it doesn't matter too much at the moment - I got wiped out by a Friday night oyaji on his mamachari and am now the proud owner of a fractured clavicle and elbow. No cycling for me for the next month at least.