Front Derailleur

[ak47mh]

Well after noticing on my last ride that the bike really struggled to go from the big cog to the smallest cog at the front, I thought I would have a crack at fixing it. I am not the most mechanical savvy, but I am getting better slowly.

So after reading loads of guides online and even watching youtube clips, I was fairly confident. Yet many hours later after re-adjusting the derailleur to every position, I had given up and was ready to book it into the local bike shop.

Anyway after walking away and coming back again just to have a quick look I found the cause of the problem! The spring inside had become full of gunk and wasn't returning to position properly, so a little clean and a lot of lube later and we are back in business! Probably a 5 minute job if I realised this at the start, but guess we all have to start somewhere!

Thought I would share.. Anyone else turned a small job into a bigger job than it should have been?

Cheers,
Ant

[Parsnip]

Cutting the steered on a set of 888's - got my measurement wrong and a 10 minute job turned into a few days having to source a direct mount stem

Wasn't so much "measure twice, cut once" as "eyeball and then attack with hacksaw"

[robpearson]

Not bike related, but relevant to pistonheads all the same. I have an ambulance that I'm converting into a camper van. I spent ages taking out this huge 'siren' only to realise it was actually the hot air intake fan, and not a siren at all. Cue 3 hours of putting it back in again. I still havent tracked down all the unnecessary wires and fuses, but have removed what feels like a couple of miles of cabling.