How To… Adjust Gears On A Mountain Bike | Halfords UK

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Learning how to adjust gears adds a whole new dimension to home bike maintenance. Smooth running front gears pays off in performance, so having the adjustment know-how is a handy skill for cyclists.

Gain the knowledge on mountain bike gear adjustments by watching this how to video.

[Music] hi there today I’ll be showing you how to adjust your front gears for this adjustment you’ll need your multitool or hex key set firstly you want to make sure that you’re in gear one on your front gears so that will be your smallest Cog on the crank set we need to make sure the barrel adjuster on the front is screwed all the way in next you want to unscrew this bolt here on the front to allow the cable to be free like so once you’ve done this the next thing you want to do is make sure that the front derailer is 3 minut above the crank set yep that’s perfect and you want to make sure that it’s straight and flush with the actual cogs as well you need to Now set the lower and higher limit screws if you don’t set the lower and higher limit screws the lower one will cause the chain to go into the frame and the higher one will cause the chain to come off the low limit screw you need to be using when you’re adjusting the low cogs so that’s one we’re going to use first you’ll need to be in the Top Gear on the rear gears just run it through and notice that it’s not touching the side of the derailer and then all you want to do is make sure you go all the way to your top gear which is gear eight on this bike push the front derailer all the way over what you need to make sure is you don’t get that sound which is the sound of it catching on the lower end just screw that in to bring it towards us so you don’t hear that noise now that’s adjusted and it’s not catching we’ll do our higher need to push the front derailer and as you can see there’s still a gap on the left hand side now that will need screwing in a little bit otherwise the chain will come off when we put it all together just a little bit there and then test again there we are we need to make sure the barrel adjuster on the front is screwed all the way in and then the last thing to do is to reattach the cable so you want to pull onto the cable and screw it back in once you’ve done that the last thing you want to do is check the cable tension all you need to do is go up to the up to gear one on the rear gears and then push on to second on the front cogs make sure it’s not catching go all the way up to your Top Gear on the rear and notice it’s not catching there and then interferred on the front and check that the chain is not coming off and it’s not catching and there we are and that’s how to adjust your front gears [Music]