Bicycles Asked by umidjon on June 14, 2021
Can you please help me to resolve the issue I am having? When I stop pedaling rear derailleur moves forward by inertia. This happen almost every time i stop pedaling and start coasting. I have a video of this happening, although not during a ride but it shows to some extent how this issue is happening here.
It looks to me like at the moment you stop the crank, the chain goes slack at the 'bottom' (normally the top) between the cassette and the chainring. The chain keeps on moving in the normal direction even though you stopped the crank. This effectively shortens the chain by pulling it through the derailleur, causing the derailleur to rapidly/violently take up the slack and jolt forwards.
The cause of this is likely some failure/jamming of the freewheel mechanism, where the rear cogs keep turning with the wheel but shouldn't (whether it's a freewheel or freehub design). Certainly that's where I would investigate, if there are no other apparent issues with the derailleur set up. If you can substitute in a different wheel then you might rule it in or out.
I'd say your freewheel is jamming but this other question is where the opposite happens and the cassette slips instead: Bike chain slips in a strange way
Answered by Swifty on June 14, 2021
tl;dr it's the plastic disc between the spokes and cassette. Best fix is to just remove it.
As Swifty said, the problem is that the freewheel isn't running properly free, i.e. the cassette keeps turning with the wheel even though the chainwheels aren't pulling. This has happened to bikes of mine for two different reasons in the past:
Answered by leftaroundabout on June 14, 2021
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