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Gears on road bike not working

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  • September 17, 2015 at 9:58 am #24814
    caseyfather

    So I recently bought a CX team comp, it has SRAM Apex derailleur front and rear

    I have tried and tried to index my gears and regardless of what I do it will not go into the first 4 gears.

    I have previously had no problem indexing my shimano gears on my previous bikes and this is stumping me now. High and Low limit are set correctly but when trying to shift into a lower gear it just wont, barrel adjusters dont help at all. Cables are literally a week old, as is the bike

    Anyone know what else it could be or is it a trip to LBS?

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  • September 18, 2015 at 10:21 am #859969
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    caseyfather

    All sorted now, put it onto
    All sorted now, put it onto smallest cog, retensioned the cable and its all good 🙂

    Thanks guys

    September 17, 2015 at 8:43 pm #859967
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    vonhelmet

    mike the bike wrote:Take it

    mike the bike wrote:
    Take it back. If you fiddle and break something you will have invalidated your warranty.

    If he’s already swapped the mechs himself then I think he’s beyond the point of warranty being relevant.

    September 17, 2015 at 6:00 pm #859965
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    CXR94Di2

    If you can move the
    If you can move the derailleur over to the big gear by hand then it’s more than likely cable has slipped. Or the index start point is wrong, easily corrected by slackening off cable, setting shifter to end position and refit to derailleur with appropriate tension. If you don’t feel competent then take it back.

    September 17, 2015 at 5:25 pm #859963
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    mike the bike

    Take it back. If you fiddle
    Take it back. If you fiddle and break something you will have invalidated your warranty.

    September 17, 2015 at 12:51 pm #859961
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    caseyfather

    It was microshift but I
    It was microshift but I swapped it out for SRAM apex

    September 17, 2015 at 12:37 pm #859959
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    BrokenBootneck

    I wouldn’t trust halfords to
    I wouldn’t trust halfords to sort it out, I have had so many issues with that bike. Also is it not microshift front mech? I changed mine for a sram rival after the microshift started to bow outwards making it impossible to shift.

    September 17, 2015 at 11:38 am #859957
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    Chuck

    It’s obviously worth figuring
    It’s obviously worth figuring out how to do this yourself at some point, but if it’s a week old everything should be working fine so- back to the shop!

    September 17, 2015 at 11:11 am #859955
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    Anonymous

    Bike is a week old. Take it
    Bike is a week old. Take it back to Halfords and tell them to build it properly.

    September 17, 2015 at 10:57 am #859953
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    sergius

    Cable slipped perhaps? You
    Cable slipped perhaps? You could try adjusting the limit screws to the middle of the range and then move the cable in the grip to pull the derailleur down to the correct position for the lowest gear, and then adjust from there?

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