No, definitely no license or anything. That'd just be way way too much of a hassle for everyone involved. As for the handlebars, yeah, nobody really talks about it enough. But then you think about how things go everywhere in an accident, and what happens to apples when they meet an apple corer.
As for "sanely", I just mean that they change when you tell them to, and not when you don't. And further that there's no combinations that don't work or make the chain fall off or stupid things like that. You just want to be sure that you have power when you need it. Note that you're supposed to avoid certain combinations that make the chain deflect too much (e.g. big chain ring up front to big cog in back), but that's just to avoid wearing out the chain prematurely, they should still work.
Your gears are fine, though that clicking noise tends to drive me bananas. It's super easy to fix though, there should be a little barrel adjuster where the cable meets the derailleur, and you probably only need to give it a quarter or half turn one way or the other. Then just (get someone to) hold up the back wheel while you run through the gears to make sure you didn't make it worse.
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Date: 2008-07-12 07:08 pm (UTC)As for "sanely", I just mean that they change when you tell them to, and not when you don't. And further that there's no combinations that don't work or make the chain fall off or stupid things like that. You just want to be sure that you have power when you need it. Note that you're supposed to avoid certain combinations that make the chain deflect too much (e.g. big chain ring up front to big cog in back), but that's just to avoid wearing out the chain prematurely, they should still work.
Your gears are fine, though that clicking noise tends to drive me bananas. It's super easy to fix though, there should be a little barrel adjuster where the cable meets the derailleur, and you probably only need to give it a quarter or half turn one way or the other. Then just (get someone to) hold up the back wheel while you run through the gears to make sure you didn't make it worse.