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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2016 17:14:34 GMT
Hi and welcome. I'm pretty new here myself. I share your new found enjoyment but let me tell you that the person who sets it up should not be type cast by who they work for. I live an equal distance from 2 halfords stores and have quietly watched them setting up bikes. Along with this I have also gone to 3 other stores asides decathlon and the bottom line is, there has been good and bad in all of them. Some talked the talk but were clumsy and seemed careless, some looked clueless and had nothing to say where as others delivered well on both counts. There can be a lot of difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it well. If your local decathlon is close to you why not pop over and befriend/choose your set up guy? or request that you are there when its set up? either of these should sharpen their focus a tad. The obvious thing for me is gear indexing and I'd ask to try it out up and down the street outside before leaving the store all paid up. Generally though, I would like to think you won't have much of an issue. Good Luck.
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Post by william39 on Sept 3, 2016 19:30:11 GMT
Best bet is to work on the bike yourself. Most people on here do that and have built up the knowledge from asking questions and watching youtube vids. Most jobs have been discussed so if you look back through some old threads that should be helpful. There are a few jobs requiring expensive specialist tools which are best left to the 'experts' but most things can be done from home with a relatively inexpensive toolkit. Obvious things to check before getting started are for safety reasons. Bolt tightness, tyre pressure and brakes.
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Post by Paulinblack on Sept 3, 2016 21:34:32 GMT
Welcome on board - Nice bike!
There are lots of different types of rider on these forums with lots of different types of experience.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2016 5:10:45 GMT
A warm welcome on board, good looking bike, some good solid advice already been offered, I'll add simply enjoy getting to know your machine and enjoy the journey.
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Post by r0b1et on Sept 5, 2016 10:46:27 GMT
Best bet is to work on the bike yourself. Most people on here do that and have built up the knowledge from asking questions and watching youtube vids. Most jobs have been discussed so if you look back through some old threads that should be helpful. There are a few jobs requiring expensive specialist tools which are best left to the 'experts' but most things can be done from home with a relatively inexpensive toolkit. Obvious things to check before getting started are for safety reasons. Bolt tightness, tyre pressure and brakes. Hi Will, thanks so much for contributing to the thread and your advice. That does remind me of when I was working on my MTB and haven't tightened the rear brake cable enough, so when I was out on a test ride and tried to lock up the wheel, the cable simply let go. While I do have some technical knowledge, I lack some basic tools such as a torque wrench (accurate ones are expensive) and by the way, not to advertise but there'll be some nice T-Handle HEX and TORX key sets on Sunday at LIDL (UK) which seem to be perfect for this kind of work - www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=36785 which I'm definitely getting tomorrow. I'll add those things you mentioned to my list, they're so basic they're easy to forget. Thanks again! Once I get a hang of the search function, I'm sure it'll be useful. That's what forums are, a resource of powerful knowledge from wise people Don't believe what you read about torque wrenches, particularly when dealling with aluminium, you can do it by hand with a bit of sense of not going mad on things with low torque settings. I finally got round to buying a torque wrench this summer, but only because I spotted it misspelt on ebay, so it went for Β£4.
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Post by jondxxx on Sept 6, 2016 15:16:35 GMT
If it's anything like my bike also worth checking how tight the quick releases are. I couldn't move mine by hand. Also my brake blocks were misaaligned on the wheel and the adjusters were fully fully wound in leaving no room for future adjustment. Lastly the gear indexing was poor, mostly due to the low stop being out.
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Post by r0b1et on Sept 7, 2016 9:51:17 GMT
One of the brakes was tilted to the side, another one was a little too tight. Gears are.. "OK" and I'd rather not mess with them. There's a bit of rubbing against the derailleur in certain gear combinations You'll be hard pressed/(its probably impossible) to ever get no rub with a triple.
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