New answers tagged derailleur
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Is Mean Time To Retune a major distinguishing factor between Sora and Ultegra?
No experience with road groupsets, but with MTB ones (I have 3 bikes, one with XT M8100 (shifter and derailleur), one with a mix of Deore/LX/XT (late 2000's), and one that was originally full Acera, ...
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Is Mean Time To Retune a major distinguishing factor between Sora and Ultegra?
I lack personal experience with the current Sora. My understanding is that the current Tiagra (4700) way outperforms its pricepoint, but it is two steps above Sora.
In general, borrowing the economics ...
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Is Mean Time To Retune a major distinguishing factor between Sora and Ultegra?
My experience is with Sora and 105, but is at odds with yours.
I run 3×9 Sora on a tourer and 2×11 105 on a gravel* bike, and have had much more experience with the former. I ride them in similar ...
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Sora front derailleur cannot reach top chainring cleanly
Since I can't reply in the comments section, I'll provide a new response.
Officially supporting a chainline of 48mm to 49mm is primarily the domain of MTB derailleurs.
However, MTB derailleurs usually ...
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Sora front derailleur cannot reach top chainring cleanly
It seems like a similar issue is occurring with your bike. I own a JAMIS gravel bike, the Renegade S4, equipped with a SORA front derailleur, shifter, and an FSA crankset with a measured chainline of ...
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What's going on with the bonkers derailleur?
That's a generic 1980's style claw adapter for a derailleur - quite common for its age.
The silver circle with a segment cut off - that has a round boss on the other side which sits inside the dropout ...
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What's going on with the bonkers derailleur?
In theory, the derailleur is clamped into the dropout by the silver stepped nut, with the flat towards the axle.
In practice they don't really work, and the axle nut is what holds everything together -...
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Any fixes for pinch bolt crimp refusing to lock in place?
Looking at the 2nd picture, it's possible the tab on the clamp washer has got bent. That could be caused by overtightening it in that intermediate position.
Tightening it with the cable lying nicely ...
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Does anyone make dummy batteries for eTap AXS derailleurs?
Going to assume these are like the assioma pedals. Log into the Bluetooth application and turn the device to travel mode.
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Does anyone make dummy batteries for eTap AXS derailleurs?
The part your looking for is a battery mount cover for eTap / AXS / Eagle AXS
Manufacturer (SRAM) Number: 11.7618.008.000
Most of them are appear out of stock but I have found this other eBay listing ...
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Does anyone make dummy batteries for eTap AXS derailleurs?
Talk to the bike shop where you got the bike. The bike should have come with this as part of a kit that includes the charger and 2 little plastic battery protectors. The color is red, of course. ...
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Does anyone make dummy batteries for eTap AXS derailleurs?
I've never handled one of these, but it looks like you could take the battery off, put a small piece of electrical tape over the contacts, and put it back on.
If you have to cut the tape in a fiddly ...
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Sora front derailleur cannot reach top chainring cleanly
The problem is the presence of the spacer underneath the drive side BB cup:
This appears to be a Shimano road crank, likely the matching Sora FC-R3000, in a Shimano road bottom bracket, likely BB-...
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