http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Seasonal Front Mech Confessional en Wed, 13 May 2026 01:48:44 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-301073 Sat, 09 Feb 2019 12:24:54 +0000 LaidBack 301073@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Standard bikes weak point. Spray with salt onto bottom bracket and front mech from front wheel.<br /> One reason our old family tandem went to Rohloff (never owned a car and cycling in Edinburgh = high gear click use).<br /> On recliners both the b/b and front mech stay out of the spray zone so stay a lot cleaner.<br /> <em>But yes... I know they aren't practical ;-)</em></p> <p>Could argue that the lower the front mudguard is, the less water makes it back to b/b and front mech? Doesn't look so good but... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-301036 Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:58:45 +0000 minus six 301036@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>one front mech now rehabilitated</p> <p>one stubborn one still to go..</p> <p>i've given it a hard stare and mumbled something about returning on sunday to apply the iwrats non-attachment policy</p> <p>that should do the trick </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300951 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 14:19:45 +0000 Mandopicker101 300951@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Following a recent crash on my commuter, I had a few days on my road bike. Alas the shock of midwinter plainly killed the front mech shifter stone dead. The lever swings, but those pawls ain't clicking. </p> <p>Funnily enough my commuting bike is running better than ever before, mainly because the majority of the drive train is brand new (and the owner is now a lot wiser/poorer). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300919 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 08:46:31 +0000 paulmilne 300919@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>3-ring front mechs on both bikes seemingly okay at the moment. I tend to leave it on the big ring unless necessary. Rarely hit the small ring these days. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300905 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 20:29:11 +0000 le_soigneur 300905@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To free a seized front mech, I douse in WD40, leave it soak, I get a pliers on the pivot point and lever it to-and-fro gradually and once it reaches the small chainring I apply oil to the pivot and cable run. Then test it with the gearshifter. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300900 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:51:25 +0000 Greenroofer 300900@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have Alfine. It works in a predictable way. I am completely satisfied with it, but I don't engage with it emotionally. I also have Sturmey Archer 3 speed which I am attached to because of the happy ticking sound it makes in top gear. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300897 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:44:44 +0000 unhurt 300897@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are you sure you don't secretly enjoy the constant risk of technological failure? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300855 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:53:32 +0000 dessert rat 300855@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Alfine</em></p> <p>I have one coupled with an over complicated Di2 set-up. When it works is great, the slight lack of range can be annoying but just means I have to pedal harder or faster depends which end. </p> <p>However it's the endless worry that it's going to fail at the most inopportune time, which provides a constant ongoing low-level amount of stress. </p> <p>I am sure it'll be just fine on the Capital Trail at the end of May and no one will laugh should the worst occur. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300846 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:47:10 +0000 unhurt 300846@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ARobComp I just assumed it was meant in that sense. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300842 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:35:33 +0000 steveo 300842@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That's what's worrying me, I suspect the actual component is knackered and is only about £20 to replace... Assuming I can prise it from the frame. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300835 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:16:29 +0000 I were right about that saddle 300835@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@steveo</p> <p>Not even I would blowtorch a component on the frame unless it was stuck on the frame, obvs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300831 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:02:46 +0000 steveo 300831@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Iwrats, now you've worried me. I wasn't even thinking about getting the mech off the bike! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300820 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:00:33 +0000 ARobComp 300820@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've put "everything is fine" but in this sense.<br /> <img 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</p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300819 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:58:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 300819@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@steveo</p> <p>Blowtorch mate. A major source of winter cash-flow for bikeshops I'm told - front mech in vice, roast, hammer, lube, replace. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300818 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:56:24 +0000 steveo 300818@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Alfine........ :-)</p> <p>Just like glasses come free on the NHS, the more I look through them the more I see<br /> I'm becoming more like...</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300817 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:54:51 +0000 steveo 300817@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mtb front mech is seized solid in the big ring no amount of wd40 and mallet seems to help it. Going to have to order a new one, I had been intending on taking it up the pentlands but given I couldn't get up the ramp to ravelston from the nepn I can't see me getting up any of the clueghs. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300814 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 08:26:09 +0000 wingpig 300814@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have to help mine down to the small ring with a foot whenever I decide to use it, which is usually every couple of months at the most. Even without going to the top ring I still have more gear on the geared bike than on the singlespeed, so I haven't felt the need to try the big ring since refitting it. I have a small selection of 28.6 bottom-pull front mechs in my bits tub but none seem to be truly able to move enough to deserve being called triple. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300808 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:32:36 +0000 chdot 300808@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Front mechs never my favourite thing, but I’ve seldom failed to oil the pivots enough for the things to stop working.</p> <p>My first front mech didn’t exist.</p> <p>I created a 10 speed tourer and basically ran out of money and decided that the front ring would be used so little that I could save money by not having mech or lever.</p> <p>I derailed the chain with my heel.</p> <p>To change back up I used a bent spoke which I somehow (can’t remember) fixed to the top tube until required. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300804 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:28:20 +0000 minus six 300804@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats some might say you are cheating destiny with this non-attached front mech philosophy, but clearly it has its benefits </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300803 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:14:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 300803@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have two front mechs. Neither is attached to a frame, both are just dandy thanks for asking. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300800 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:46:50 +0000 stiltskin 300800@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Alfine........ :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300799 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:41:52 +0000 minus six 300799@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>a middle ring.. what mad tolkienesque sorcerey is this </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300791 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:03:10 +0000 sallyhinch 300791@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rear mech is semi gubbed but only because I've got my winter wheels on still. I consider the front mech to only be used in emergencies, otherwise it's the middle ring all the way </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300790 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:59:47 +0000 gembo 300790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Rear mech slipping but needs to wait til spring </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300788 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:49:23 +0000 minus six 300788@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>its not easy i know.. but sometimes talking helps </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300787 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:46:32 +0000 unhurt 300787@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This is now my favourite CCE poll ever. I feel SEEN. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19437#post-300785 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 21:31:03 +0000 minus six 300785@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>two bikes currently afflicted</p> <p>sometimes i fantasise that i will take the time needed to sort it all out at the weekend.. yes definitely next weekend..</p> <p>or maybe i'll just gamely soldier on with ongoing shift impediment and replace it in the spring</p> <p>its all in the hands of the gods, for i am merely an innocent bystander </p>