Bicycles Asked by AnxiousCouch on July 21, 2021
Can anybody help me with any tips on fine-tuning the adjustments on this derailleur (Force 22)? The positioning as far as I can tell is good, I can stick a penny between the teeth of the big ring and the outer cage with the derailleur in that position, and the hash marks are aligned with the ring.
I am having trouble getting it to make consistent upshifts. It sometimes takes, but more often takes more than one crank revolution for the chain to make it up to the big ring, and all the while it is bouncing/jamming inside the derailleur cage and scraping all over the big ring before it catches. A couple of times the FD has shifted the chain off to the outside (and also to the inside when I’m dropping from big –> small. This happens in pretty much all of the cassette positions, not just at the lowest gears. I figure if I can get it to work in big-big then it will work okay elsewhere with some fine tuning.
I’ve tightened the cable as far as it will go with the barrel adjuster screwed in, then have tried adding tension to the cable using the adjuster but I can’t seem to get any consistency. There are two videos on YouTube for this and I’ve watched them both…no apparent improvement?
LBS (which built up this bike) is incompetent and I will not be going back. I got it with visible play in the crankset and headset, misaligned shifters, overtorqued stem bolts, the lot…so I have to figure this out myself.
Thanks!
Edit: Took to another LBS, and they couldn’t get it right either. Putting the groupset on eBay. Unbelievable how unintuitive it is to tune and set up. Moral of the story if you want to avoid headaches: buy Shimano.
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