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This setup with its 14t jump has most often been done with 104/64 triples, mountain triple FDs, and a bashring or guard in the outer position. Cheating the capacity number on mountain double FDs mostl …

I only have a sample size of one Schlumpf bike I've done an install and some maintenance for, but it appears normal. See page C-1 of the user manual you link to. The "some play between the cranks and …

The Shimano Deore and Alivio level 32, 34, and 36t rings in steel are the best there are for people hanging out in those gears a lot for on-road use, and they're cheap too. … you made both sets of changes (34t or 36t mid ring in front, 34 or 36t big cog in back), can the RD total capacity and max cog size handle that and if so, does it still give you access to the climbing gears …

If what you're saying is that you think the liner piece got scooted up out of the frame and there is now an internal area where the cable is meeting higher friction because of it, typically to push th …

There is a way of doing this: a rotary file and confidence. Here are some images lifted from Yellow Jersey's site. Since you have less of a slab of dropout to work with, you'd probably do it by usi …

There are two different contexts this kind of question can come up in: When one is deciding between completely different routing schemes, i.e. a bike that gives you the ability to put the RD cable al …

No, you can't let bare cable rub over an aluminum or carbon frame. In the history of steel frames there have been many frame parts and designs made that do allow rub (see many 70s and earlier lugged B …

Ultimately if this is a high-mileage bike and you need higher gears, a new crank is probably the more practical thing. Then you have a lot more options to get the gearing you really want. …

One of the things anti-seize exists to do is provide the best possible protection against stuck or damaged threads in applications like this where the parts are tightened repeatedly under working load …

The most common causes are a seal (such as whatever is sealing around the drive ring) in need of more lubrication, or too much/too viscous of lubrication in the ratcheting mechanism. Some freehubs are …

Derailleur hanger misalignment will tend to reduce the margin for error in the adjustment, and make it hard to avoid certain gears where there's some jumping or noise. …

Shimano's published method for establishing chain length is based on adding links to the length that will wrap around large/large sans derailleur. When a bigger cassette is swapped in on a chain sized …

A closer cassette will give you the benefit of closer intervals between gears. If you don't need the 34 with the terrain you ride, that is all upside. …

Octalink is the bottom bracket spindle interface. It's kind of muddying the waters to focus on this. If you have all Claris parts of that era, the commonly understood way of referring to it would be 2 …

If you've got the yellow mark dialed and you're shifting only while coasting, and it's happening as you get into the slacker cable tension gears, it is possible there's a kink in the cable somewhere hidden …