[urbaindk]

Personally I could care less. Or is that couldn't care less? I never can remember.

Now that I have your attention, can anybody tell me why my rear derailluer (sram x.7) doesn't like to shift off the granny gear? The cables are clean. It seems to shift nice and smooth on the work stand. But on the trail the cable goes slack and it takes a good bump to make it drop. I suspect I have sprung the return spring by whacking it on a curb a few good times.

 

[JRB]

Wrong forum.

 

[DRB]

Personally I could care less. Or is that couldn't care less? I never can remember.

Now that I have your attention, can anybody tell me why my rear derailluer (sram x.7) doesn't like to shift off the granny gear? The cables are clean. It seems to shift nice and smooth on the work stand. But on the trail the cable goes slack and it takes a good bump to make it drop. I suspect I have sprung the return spring by whacking it on a curb a few good times.

'cause SRAM sux. Take it all off your bike and smash it with a hammer. Then replace it with Shimano. || || That's my interpretation of the DVDA ad campaign shimano is running now.

 

[urbaindk]

Well which is it? "Could care less" or "couldn't care less"? Help a brother out?

 

[Wumpus]

Well which is it? "Could care less" or "couldn't care less"? Help a brother out?

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/care.html

 

[I Are Baboon]

Well which is it? "Could care less" or "couldn't care less"? Help a brother out?

It's "couldn't." "Could care less" means you still have some degree of care left.

As far as the shifting issue goes, beats the snot out of me. I take my bike problems to the wife for fixing.

 

[Angus]

If you had a friggin single speed you wouldn't have to worry about such ****, you'd be out riding not whining

 

[firetoole]

I thought it was "shall not nor ever care less"

 

[urbaindk]

If you had a friggin single speed you wouldn't have to worry about such ****, you'd be out riding not whining

I have a SS and I've destroyed the BB and the cranks need replacing. Friggin single speed indeed!

 

[urbaindk]

I thought it was "shall not nor ever care less"

When I was just a wee lad, my dear mother took me asided and said "son, thou shallt not nor ever never listen to a duch bag" Advise as good today as ever.

 

[binary visions]

Increase the cable tension by unscrewing the barrel adjuster.

As far as sethman goes, well, whining by newbies is generally ignored - I'm suprised this has caused a stir

 

[urbaindk]

Increase the cable tension by unscrewing the barrel adjuster.

Why would adding tension make it up-shift better? I'll try it but it doesn't make sense. It down-shifts so nice and smooth.

As far as sethman goes, well, whining by newbies is generally ignored - I'm suprised this has caused a stir

Yeah. 2 posts? Sounds fishy to me. I could care less - but I don't.

 

[binary visions]

Why would adding tension make it up-shift better? I'll try it but it doesn't make sense. It down-shifts so nice and smooth.

Err, I should have clarified - that's only if you have a normal style derailleur. It's the opposite if you have rapid-rise.

If you're pushing to move the derailleur (putting tension on the cable), then increasing the tension that's already on the cable will get the derailleur to move over more when you shift. Downshifting is typically less finicky than up-shifting, so you can put a pretty good amount of tension on the cable without screwing with your downshift.

If you have rapid rise, the reverse is true - if you're letting slack out to move the derailleur off the granny gear, then you want to decrease tension on the cable to get it to move further.

 

[DHS]

SRAM is not that rapid raise crap. you also may have to adjust your limit screw, or even your der hanger could have gotten bent. need to see it to really help
but yes adding tension to the sram will make it shift into the Larger(easier) gears in the rear

 

[ioscope]

Of the time in which one is perplexeled within the issue of caring; while vernacular varies regionally and culturally, the correct nomenclature is as such:

I care so little that if I cared any less you might become a black hole and disappear from my conception of spacetime,wherein I would enter it as well, but believe myself to be alive for a long while becuase of the logistics of light speed travel.

Hence, I could care less.

 

[urbaindk]

but yes adding tension to the sram will make it shift into the Larger(easier) gears in the rear

That's what I'm calling a down shift. down = easier, up = harder. Just so I'm clear. The down shifting all gears is fine. Up shifting from around 3 to 9 is fine. I don't think the hanger is bent but I'll check it. It is possible since I did bend part of the parallelogram on the derailleur itself. I bent it back and it worked fine for a time.

I tried tweaking to the low adjust screw in a little (away from the wheel) not quite to the point where it won't shift up to the granny cog. I've fiddled with it all really. So that pretty much leaves replacement of the derailleur and hanger, I think. Bummer.