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New mountain bike

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  • 17-06-2016 12:28pm
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    SCOOP 64
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    just brought my son a new bike, be honest done much about them,it came in box so had to set it up, it has shimino tourney derailer, with twist shift gears,now could not shift the gears at first then looked at a few videos to see how to a adjust, this did help working with a "click, bang" sort of way, you can change to high level (Harder to pedal) but changing it to low level(easier to pedal) is very stiff, my son is 12, i know he wont able to change to low level, i can just about manage it, any thing i can do to ease the stiffness in gears.

    PS ,not sure if ive got the low/high the right way round in explaining above, hopefully you might get what im talking about.


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    ec18
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    bring it to a bike shop and ask them to check it over?


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    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users Posts: 5,261 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    ec18 wrote: »
    bring it to a bike shop and ask them to check it over?

    No can do, even though its brand new in box it was a private sale.
    i say i have not set it up right.


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    dragratchet
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    you can still take it to a shop and ask them to do a service on the gears with your specific issue described to them. any time i've attempted to tinker with gears on my own bikes i've only made the issue worse and ended up in the lbs anyway (but that's just me)


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    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users Posts: 5,261 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    dragratchet wrote: »
    you can still take it to a shop and ask them to do a service on the gears with your specific issue described to them. any time i've attempted to tinker with gears on my own bikes i've only made the issue worse and ended up in the lbs anyway (but that's just me)

    Your absolutely right ,think ill have to do that, no i too will only make it worst, they make it look so easy on utube!


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,311 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    No can do, even though its brand new in box it was a private sale.
    i say i have not set it up right.

    'A' shop. Not 'the' shop. Any local mechanic will be happy to set it up. Won't be expensive.


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    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users Posts: 5,261 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    endacl wrote: »
    'A' shop. Not 'the' shop. Any local mechanic will be happy to set it up. Won't be expensive.

    What would be classed as not expensive ?


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,311 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    SCOOP 64 wrote: »
    What would be classed as not expensive ?

    If you're in Dublin, something like this...

    http://www.thespokesman.ie/?page_id=1090


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    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users Posts: 5,261 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    endacl wrote: »
    If you're in Dublin, something like this...

    http://www.thespokesman.ie/?page_id=1090

    Thats good, now to find someone in wexford.


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