is it just me ?

jondi

Whenever i try to alter or correct my gears front and back, I seem to make them worse. I put a new chain on recently but the gears were slipping tried to align them, just made it worse and wish i never started to alter them.

How do you know if you got the right tension on chain ? also best way to go about altering gears ? without making them worse.

nicklouse

just changing the chain you should not need to adjust anything.

if things are skipping then maybe other parts are too worn.

jondi

Maybe , but bike wasn't very old before the link snapped on chain either. I have trouble getting gears to work all the way from top to bottom.

GHill

Have you followed the guide on Park Tool for indexing gears? The link is in Nick's sig if you need it.

Petty Vagrant

I found having a lot of patience and watching videos on youtube to be helpful. I'm rubbish at learning from books so watching was so much better for me.

Having a workshop stand made things a lot easier (yet anther ebay purchase for me!).

I had problems with trying it get all my gears to index properly, really frustrating as I spent ages trying to get them right and then I discovered I had a bent mech hanger. :oops:

jondi

Yeh know what you mean, bicycletutor.com has good tips and video's

llamafarmer

GHill wrote:

Have you followed the guide on Park Tool for indexing gears? The link is in Nick's sig if you need it.

Agreed, if you follow that guide carefully it's not too difficult to get the indexing sorted.

nfrang

I'm with ya jondi messing always seems to make things worse! Right now i've got one or two gears out but the rest are spot on...as Petty Vagrant said a workstand would make things way easier.

thomasali

If you can't do it, take it to a bike shop! Also new chain + old cassette normally equals slippage.

bomberesque

Petty Vagrant wrote:

I found having a lot of patience and watching videos on youtube to be helpful. I'm rubbish at learning from books so watching was so much better for me.

I know what you mean; 2 girls 1 cup taught me all I need to know about bleeding brakes

adjusting indexing takes perseverance. Tolerances on 9sp are tight so you need to make sure that everything is clean before you start and half a turn can make all the difference.

read a guide or co-opt a mate who knows how to do it but as Nick says, if you changed the chain and the gears are immediately slipping then likely your cassette is worn. How old was the chain that snapped and how many miles do you rekon you put into it?