Honestly, it sounds like Horse just needs a tuneup. Huckabee does something similar with shifts where he'll skip, or delay, or just suddenly decide to change gears, and I know he just needs some work done. There are a couple of screws you're supposed to tighten/loosen to fix this, it's just a pain in the balls if you don't have one of those fancy racks to lift the rear wheel off the ground, because you have to spin the pedals and test the shifting action while you work with the screws or it'll probably get all fucked up.
Though if you just wanna see what does what, get Jinya or someone to hold Horse's ass off the ground while you spin the pedals with one hand and change gears with the other and watch what happens.
I would just leave the 6-gear side alone for a while and focus on the side with a whole bunch of gears while riding (presumably more than six?). Pretty sure you don't have to cycle through all of them before up/downshifting the other side, or at least I've never heard that advice given.
And because I just like to say it and so rarely get to, I'll repeat my favorite maxim: Shift for cadence, not for speed.
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Date: 2013-09-07 02:00 am (UTC)Honestly, it sounds like Horse just needs a tuneup. Huckabee does something similar with shifts where he'll skip, or delay, or just suddenly decide to change gears, and I know he just needs some work done. There are a couple of screws you're supposed to tighten/loosen to fix this, it's just a pain in the balls if you don't have one of those fancy racks to lift the rear wheel off the ground, because you have to spin the pedals and test the shifting action while you work with the screws or it'll probably get all fucked up.
Though if you just wanna see what does what, get Jinya or someone to hold Horse's ass off the ground while you spin the pedals with one hand and change gears with the other and watch what happens.
I would just leave the 6-gear side alone for a while and focus on the side with a whole bunch of gears while riding (presumably more than six?). Pretty sure you don't have to cycle through all of them before up/downshifting the other side, or at least I've never heard that advice given.
And because I just like to say it and so rarely get to, I'll repeat my favorite maxim: Shift for cadence, not for speed.