SRAM
BIGplumberon2wheels
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I took my newly aquired bike back to Halfords today as the SRAM geears were not adjusted correctly, I read some blogs that lead me to believe not many Halford mechanics were up to this job.
Well Having taken the bike in , I was told it would be 10 mins. fair enough I will look around the shop, anyway 25 Mins later and 3 customers later the mechanic started on mine.
I got closer to watch and he seemed to just be pedaling ( in bike stand) and operated the gears badly. No adjustments were made.
Another customer walks in and from out the rear appears the Chief Mechanic/ Manager the 1st mechainc said he had adusted it and it only needed fine tuning (Hmmm) me thinks not.
Anyway luckily for me I guess Chief Mechanic adjusted it tried it many times front and rear and back again, under some load scenario also.
It seems fine but it could have been a different story.
(C Boardman Team Carbon)
Well Having taken the bike in , I was told it would be 10 mins. fair enough I will look around the shop, anyway 25 Mins later and 3 customers later the mechanic started on mine.
I got closer to watch and he seemed to just be pedaling ( in bike stand) and operated the gears badly. No adjustments were made.
Another customer walks in and from out the rear appears the Chief Mechanic/ Manager the 1st mechainc said he had adusted it and it only needed fine tuning (Hmmm) me thinks not.
Anyway luckily for me I guess Chief Mechanic adjusted it tried it many times front and rear and back again, under some load scenario also.
It seems fine but it could have been a different story.
(C Boardman Team Carbon)
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I had the same problem, when I picked mine up from Halfords in Huddersfield they guy just said "I've never seen this SRAM stuff before, was a right bitch"!!!
None the less it was straight round to my local bike shop, on collection I was told the gears were way out, brake calipers were loose and the real wheel had a couple of loose spokes (known prob apparantly) He sorted all out for £20.
It rides like a dream now and I love every minute being on it!!
If you've got a spare £40ish knocking about I'd reccomend getting a good LBS to take a look and also get yourself a charge spoon saddle. I got one and it made the bike so much more comfortable, the boardman saddles are crap!!!0 -
I dont know how SRAM works really, or any other really :oops: But are you sure he wasn't "fine tuning" the derailleurs :?: :?
If it seems fine now what's the big problem?winter beast: http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr34 ... uff016.jpg
Summer beast; http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr34 ... uff015.jpg0 -
SRAM stuff is junk,
On about my 6th ride on my SRAM Red equipped bike I had to replace a SRAM Red shifter that stopped working. They wanted to charge me 275 quid for a replacement as they said it "Wasn't covered by the warranty". I managed to get a new pair for £317 so I have a spare.0 -
NapoleonD wrote:SRAM stuff is junk,
On about my 6th ride on my SRAM Red equipped bike I had to replace a SRAM Red shifter that stopped working. They wanted to charge me 275 quid for a replacement as they said it "Wasn't covered by the warranty". I managed to get a new pair for £317 so I have a spare.
SRAM mixed a trick (or did they
) when they failed to engineer shifters that would survive high speed crashes. My Chorus shifters are a right mess after all my crashes, but functionally they are still perfect. 0 -
Heh heh, they still shifted (badly) and the brake levers worked but didn't return properly... Gutted!
Otherwise I love it! Would like to try campy but it would mean wheel fettling and none-use of powertap on bike that has it...0 -
NapoleonD wrote:Otherwise I love it! Would like to try campy but it would mean wheel fettling and none-use of powertap on bike that has it...
Campag10 shifts pretty well on a 10spd Shim/SRAM cassette - Dan ran Record on his Bontrager wheels and it seemed to work fine. So you could use the power tap :idea:0 -
Thought about that... Get old record/chorus 10...
(sounds of clockwork...)0
