Front Derailleur Cable Routing

Use needle nosed pliers to hold the cable tight and use a 5 mm hex key to tighten the cable fixing bolt.

Front derailleur cable routing.

Route the cable back through the cable routing on the underside of the bottom bracket and back into the cable fixing bolt on the derailleur. Shimano s side swing derailleurs have the cable enter at the front. Z pull adjustment of cable tension 1 chain position a b set the chain on to the largest sprocket at the rear and at the front shift the chain to the smallest chainring and then back to the largest chainring. It moves the top part of the chain and allows you to shift into different gears.

English dm rafd001 02 dealer s manual road mtb trekking city touring comfort bike urban sport e bike front derailleur dura ace fd r9100 ultegra fd r8000 105 fd 5801 procedures for cable tension adjustment and top adjustment differ from those of previous models. Top bottom and dual pull cable routing explained. Bikes with internal cables can be notoriously difficult to service. This is a new standard introduced in shimano 11 speed mountain bike currently on m9000 xtr and m8000 xt.

During the initial front derailleur setup i noticed that the plastic guide provided with the front derailleur which shows which side the cable routing nut should be positioned indicated the. So quick and light shifting is possible. They re commonly attached to mountain bikes so you can adjust the gears for different terrain to make it easier to pedal the bike. Home technology components details top swing front derailleur top swing front derailleur because the moving pivot section is set at a higher position and combined with a shorter link the rigidity is higher.

A front derailleur on a bicycle moves the chain between the 3 front sprockets. Cable re secure to the front derailleur as shown in the illustration. Here are our latest and greatest hacks for getting the job done.