Here's how to use this video to its optimum: watch it once just looking at the video. Then, sit with your bike and follow along with what he's saying. Finally, watch it with tools and do what he's saying. You'll get a lot out of it if you just take your time and move slowly rather than getting freaked out. Soon enough, you'll have a working derailleur and being able to do it on your own next time. That is the sign of an informative video!
Thank you! You made my first bike repair possible! I just got a new Trek as my first road bike and the chain was rubbing the front derailleur when I shifted into the highest gear. Followed your instructions and it’s fixed!
Saved me a trip to the bike shop. Only thing I would add is it helps to loosen both H-L adjustment screws for full reset to max range of motion. Then tighten clockwise as needed
This video is so much better than the others because it explains the tension settings while making the adjustments. This is what kept screwing me up. Sometimes it would move too far, and other times it wouldn’t move at all. I figured it was a tension thing but starting out with none and then moving on helped me to dial it in. Thanks!
I used to watch so many guides about this and they never really worked out perfectly. They always had left some steps away or didnt explain it as good as this did. The 1mm on lowest gear advice was the best possible and now my bike shifts as good as possible! I almost gave up and went to a mechanic, thanks for saving me a few pennies
Absolutely great video explaining everything I needed for the front derailleur! I would recommend this video to anyone! Thank you so very much for taking the time to post this video. My front derailleur was rubbing the chain and this gave me all the information I needed to fix it. A+ would watch again.
Thank you so much! Race tomorrow and the LBS' adjustments made the front derailleur rub the top of the derailleur cage. Thanks to your video I was able to make at least the necessary adjustments tonight before the race!
I watched a million front derailleur videos, and this was the most concise and easiest to understand. Park Tools video is also good but the clockwise visuals in this video I believe is what helped me ultimately.
Yes! Forget all the rest this video is simple and straightforward. I was ready to go into the shop and wait a week but decided to try one more video. I’m glad this was the one I chose. My old Ultegra is back to buttery smooth shifting. Thank you very much!
Thanks for posting this video ! I have now got my front derailleur working really sweet now . I've watched a few of these vids but yours really got through to me and finally now I feel I have got the grasp of the front derailleur adjustment. Awesome !!!
You guys have the best videos! I just assembled a Jamis Icon Pro and your videos helped immensely to walk me through it. Thanks and keep up the good work, much appreciated!
I like the "be patient" part. I'll give it another try. lol. (BTW, I remember, YEARS AGO back in the 60's, when a friend suggested that someday you could work on your car or bike using DIY instructions from a computer. I thought that was unlikely, and joked something like "Call me when you can put the computer on your fender and watch the video." Well, here we are, more or less. It is amazing when you think about it.)
I work in a bike shop, but work in sales. it's hard to get the service guys to work on my bike because they are either too busy with customers' bikes, or they snark at me and tell me to learn to fix my own bike. LOL. So, I spent an hour working on my front derailleur after replacing the cable, and still not right. After watching this video, I see where I made my mistakes and now feel confident to hack at it again tomorrow. Thanks, guys! Very easy to understand video. And the six pack: TRUE
MJ, Thanks a bunch. I had some cable stretch going on causing poor shifting. After your videos, moving my bike from trainer to rides up and down the block and back to trainer a couple times my Ultegra 11 is shifting like Butta! Saved me a trip to the bike hop!
I wanted to make my own video after seeing so many videos that did not explain all the steps until I saw this video! You may want to add in this point; On the low limit, adjust the deraileur slightly more than 1mm from the chain and when tightening the barrel adjuster, the deraileur will move very slightly in towards the chain to make it 1mm. This will give the cable very good tension needed for high limit adjustment.
This is a great straight to the point video. I have been trying to fine tune my new front derailleur for awhile now and this video made it happen. Thanks!
To be honest this vid is very useful,I followed his directions and I love it how simple he explains it, now shifting is now flawless thanks to this guy
Messed it up last year, but my lsb soon sorted it all out for a fee...... Needed a quick tune this year and wow its so easy after watching this video. The key for me was reducing any slack with bail adjuster. Great video!!!!!
I had a replacement front derailleur and took my bike to a bike shop today. Next available service time would have been at the end of this month. That's right too far away so I decided to do it myself. I found your video and installed derailleur myself in no time. So thanks a lot. More useful videos like these to youtube. Chears :D!
Well Done just was messing up with mine Front deraillieur for a while after I followed your video I was able to set it up very good in 10 min, went out to test it ,works fantastic . THANKS A LOT , WISH ALL THE BEST .
My absolute favourite video if ever I need to refresh my derailluer knowledge. Been back to this vid multiple times. Sweet and to the point, cheers dude!
Buy a 6 packs to my mechanic? Here in Australia the Bastards they charge you 50 bucks for a 10 min job setting your shift gear. Screw these thieves. I need to learn myself on how to do it! ......Thanks you just saved me 50 bucks.
other than the occasional focus work, this was really informative REALLY consice, and I was very pleased to see the annotations [instead of fingers or tools] to help show the guidelines, and what I should be looking at. as well as showing what can go wrong, like the chain flopping off of the high gear. great video! my cheepo mongoose from walmart came with a rediculous ammount of extra slack in the front shifter cable. so...being spent, I need to do this myself. a lot of videos don't cover the front gears, at all!
after watching this video i think it helped me understand the front derailleur a little better, recently i had to take mine off, i had the shifter for it lock up, but because i have my handle bar extension's next to the shifter , it was not allowing it to down shift
Kudos on the vid instructions--truly among the best out there. I finally figured out that all I needed to do was crack a Stone at the end. I feel so much better now!
always wondered about those top/bottom adjustment screws but didn't dare touch em incase i screwed things up, now i know how and after adjusting the front on the road bike its loads better, gonna do the MTB one next!! thanks for this vid its been very useful!!
Learned a lot from this. Muted sound and only saw graphics and boy it makes more sense to me rather than the narrator explaining how everything works especially the screws direction which I'm a big dummy at. Good job!
Thanks guys! I was able to get my derailleur working correctly after watching this vid. I might have a friend look it over once before starting to use this bike for touring but at least I can reach my highest gear disk now! CHEERS! *insert sound of opening a beer*
This is probably the best video I've seen of a bunch. I think the best bike to demonstrate would be a triple crank, because you would actually be doing the middle chain ring adjustment. The best advice I have for adjusting the front shifting ? Just start over as if the bike was a brand new build and it was the first time the components were assembled.
What's the best front mec? No front mec! Lol Bought a bike out of the box and when built the front mech was not in line. I went gung ho into adjusting the front mec with racing shifters thinking I knew what I was doing. Mistake! I couldn't shift down. I followed this tutorial and now everything works great. Great vid.
Thank you for such information. I have those type of problems and I am in a rural area. My bike is just unridable at all at all coz of derailer problems. Now I can fix it myself, thank you so much.
Now that is one thing have not done yet- lube on front derailleur- years of no lube on my FD- have not done that since I bought my bike- its doing great and have forgotten about it, just kept on using it when climbing hills until today it wont shift, maybe that will solve my FD's problem :-) Thanks for sharing..
We haven't made any videos since releasing these. We are working on more soon. The website is a long time out, more tutorials first... Thanks for the feedback!
I know a 3 week delay on a reply is like waiting 20 years in internet time, but thanks for the comment. I'm cracking a beer right now pondering our next video! Cheers!
Great tutorial, thanks! I did find describing the lower limit screw as turning clockwise means "moves in" a little confusing. I would have thought "moves in" means "closer to the bike" but you mean "closer to the inner side of the chain". So your point of reference is the inner of the chain. On the upper limit you then reverse your point of reference to the outer of the chain. This is an inconsistent point of reference, the point of reference should be the bike in both cases. Otherwise very will explained.
What ever happened to the gear cable replacement video? These are the best videos I have seen. Please keep them coming! Also, sweetsbench domain is no longer active as a website. Keep em coming. TWSS.
I'm training to be a bike mec will be a full bike buy the end of year and hate front derailleur the just so touch it took me age to able to do it but I got great vid man nice and simple I like it
Two things (1) The words that appear on screen in relation to moving the LOWER adjustment screw are the wrong way round. The arrows are, however, correct. In other words, turning the lower limit screw clockwise moves the deraileur out (ie. away from the frame; turning it counterclockwise moves it in (towards the frame). (2) The video is mostly shot from the rear of the bike. However, the close-ups are shot from the front of the bike (in the close-ups the pedal crank is on the left) which is an inconsistent and confusing approach.
Great fast talking video. Very helpful. Two minor complaints for future videos and anyone else coming across this that has a little trouble following along 0. Not really the a problem with the video, but it's easier to do this with the bike upside down if you don't have a stand 1. There doesn't seem to be any mention that the chain should be put on the smallest chain ring of the front set of gears when you're aligning and setting the height of the derailleur cage 2. At 1:40, the cable is reattached to the derailleur when at this point in the instructions it's supposed to be detached
Here's how to use this video to its optimum: watch it once just looking at the video. Then, sit with your bike and follow along with what he's saying. Finally, watch it with tools and do what he's saying. You'll get a lot out of it if you just take your time and move slowly rather than getting freaked out. Soon enough, you'll have a working derailleur and being able to do it on your own next time. That is the sign of an informative video!
jafrocubic2 Great idea! So simple and obvious, like all the best ideas are. Thanks.
Thanks, I spent hours on adjusting it, but no luck
*Great bike for the price, **Latest.Bike** shifts well. Needed to fine tune gears and brakes.The big tires seem to mow over anything.*
Thank you! You made my first bike repair possible! I just got a new Trek as my first road bike and the chain was rubbing the front derailleur when I shifted into the highest gear. Followed your instructions and it’s fixed!
Saved me a trip to the bike shop. Only thing I would add is it helps to loosen both H-L adjustment screws for full reset to max range of motion. Then tighten clockwise as needed
This video is so much better than the others because it explains the tension settings while making the adjustments. This is what kept screwing me up. Sometimes it would move too far, and other times it wouldn’t move at all. I figured it was a tension thing but starting out with none and then moving on helped me to dial it in. Thanks!
I used to watch so many guides about this and they never really worked out perfectly.
They always had left some steps away or didnt explain it as good as this did.
The 1mm on lowest gear advice was the best possible and now my bike shifts as good as possible! I almost gave up and went to a mechanic, thanks for saving me a few pennies
Absolutely great video explaining everything I needed for the front derailleur! I would recommend this video to anyone! Thank you so very much for taking the time to post this video. My front derailleur was rubbing the chain and this gave me all the information I needed to fix it.
A+ would watch again.
“The best front derailleur is no front derailleur at all.”
Ain’t that the truth!!👍🏼👍🏼
Should've watch this before I went to the bike shop. They didn't fix the problem and it still cost me 40$ Thank you guys.
Thank you so much! Race tomorrow and the LBS' adjustments made the front derailleur rub the top of the derailleur cage. Thanks to your video I was able to make at least the necessary adjustments tonight before the race!
I watched a million front derailleur videos, and this was the most concise and easiest to understand. Park Tools video is also good but the clockwise visuals in this video I believe is what helped me ultimately.
Yes! Forget all the rest this video is simple and straightforward. I was ready to go into the shop and wait a week but decided to try one more video. I’m glad this was the one I chose. My old Ultegra is back to buttery smooth shifting. Thank you very much!
Thanks for posting this video ! I have now got my front derailleur working really sweet now . I've watched a few of these vids but yours really got through to me and finally now I feel I have got the grasp of the front derailleur adjustment. Awesome !!!
You guys have the best videos! I just assembled a Jamis Icon Pro and your videos helped immensely to walk me through it. Thanks and keep up the good work, much appreciated!
I’m a long time cyclist. Best video I’ve seen on the subject. Thanks! Well done.
I like the "be patient" part. I'll give it another try. lol. (BTW, I remember, YEARS AGO back in the 60's, when a friend suggested that someday you could work on your car or bike using DIY instructions from a computer. I thought that was unlikely, and joked something like "Call me when you can put the computer on your fender and watch the video." Well, here we are, more or less. It is amazing when you think about it.)
I work in a bike shop, but work in sales. it's hard to get the service guys to work on my bike because they are either too busy with customers' bikes, or they snark at me and tell me to learn to fix my own bike. LOL. So, I spent an hour working on my front derailleur after replacing the cable, and still not right. After watching this video, I see where I made my mistakes and now feel confident to hack at it again tomorrow. Thanks, guys! Very easy to understand video. And the six pack: TRUE
Well done, thank you. Of particular note, your graphic/animation was very handy too. Cheers!
MJ, Thanks a bunch. I had some cable stretch going on causing poor shifting. After your videos, moving my bike from trainer to rides up and down the block and back to trainer a couple times my Ultegra 11 is shifting like Butta! Saved me a trip to the bike hop!
I wanted to make my own video after seeing so many videos that did not explain all the steps until I saw this video! You may want to add in this point; On the low limit, adjust the deraileur slightly more than 1mm from the chain and when tightening the barrel adjuster, the deraileur will move very slightly in towards the chain to make it 1mm. This will give the cable very good tension needed for high limit adjustment.
This is a great straight to the point video. I have been trying to fine tune my new front derailleur for awhile now and this video made it happen. Thanks!
rode the bike 40km today and it sure worked like a mechanic fixed it up :D
thank you again.
To be honest this vid is very useful,I followed his directions and I love it how simple he explains it, now shifting is now flawless thanks to this guy
Messed it up last year, but my lsb soon sorted it all out for a fee...... Needed a quick tune this year and wow its so easy after watching this video. The key for me was reducing any slack with bail adjuster. Great video!!!!!
That's actually the most important step to the whole process. I'm really glad to hear it helped! Thanks for the comment
The Biopace chainrings made this more painful to adjust. Thanks for your expert advice and video!
I had a replacement front derailleur and took my bike to a bike shop today. Next available service time would have been at the end of this month. That's right too far away so I decided to do it myself. I found your video and installed derailleur myself in no time. So thanks a lot. More useful videos like these to youtube. Chears :D!
Well Done just was messing up with mine Front deraillieur for a while after I followed your video I was able to set it up very good in 10 min, went out to test it ,works fantastic .
THANKS A LOT , WISH ALL THE BEST .
My absolute favourite video if ever I need to refresh my derailluer knowledge. Been back to this vid multiple times. Sweet and to the point, cheers dude!
Buy a 6 packs to my mechanic? Here in Australia the Bastards they charge you 50 bucks for a 10 min job setting your shift gear. Screw these thieves. I need to learn myself on how to do it! ......Thanks you just saved me 50 bucks.
In any case, I'm sure you SHOW your mechanic the six-pack, but don't give it to him until the job is done...
other than the occasional focus work, this was really informative REALLY consice, and I was very pleased to see the annotations [instead of fingers or tools] to help show the guidelines, and what I should be looking at. as well as showing what can go wrong, like the chain flopping off of the high gear. great video! my cheepo mongoose from walmart came with a rediculous ammount of extra slack in the front shifter cable. so...being spent, I need to do this myself. a lot of videos don't cover the front gears, at all!
after watching this video i think it helped me understand the front derailleur a little better, recently i had to take mine off, i had the shifter for it lock up, but because i have my handle bar extension's next to the shifter , it was not allowing it to down shift
Kudos on the vid instructions--truly among the best out there. I finally figured out that all I needed to do was crack a Stone at the end. I feel so much better now!
always wondered about those top/bottom adjustment screws but didn't dare touch em incase i screwed things up, now i know how and after adjusting the front on the road bike its loads better, gonna do the MTB one next!! thanks for this vid its been very useful!!
Learned a lot from this. Muted sound and only saw graphics and boy it makes more sense to me rather than the narrator explaining how everything works especially the screws direction which I'm a big dummy at. Good job!
Great video, best one I've seen yet for the front derailleur! Much thanks.
Well structured, well shot, well edited and 100% helpful. Very, very nice tutorial!
For anyone without repair stand, I used a bike rack on the back of a car. Worked a treat!
Guys I set my new mech up in minutes watching that video! The best and clearest no fuss explanation!!!
MJ Sweet? Wow ! A rapper and a bike repairman!
0:34 equipment check
1:20 placement and adjustment
2:01 low limit screw
2:23 cable tension
3:23 high limit screw
This video was the best i've found on this subject. Thanks so much for the help. It really helped me a LOT!
These videos are really helpful. All the info in a short accessible video. Thanks!
Love the six pack option!
Pro production quality with a creative touch, thanks.
Thanks guys! I was able to get my derailleur working correctly after watching this vid. I might have a friend look it over once before starting to use this bike for touring but at least I can reach my highest gear disk now!
CHEERS! *insert sound of opening a beer*
Would watch again. Will definitely need to.
Best roadbike front gear tutorial
Man you just saved me a WHOLE lot of stamina thank you!
This is probably the best video I've seen of a bunch. I think the best bike to demonstrate would be a triple crank, because you would actually be doing the middle chain ring adjustment. The best advice I have for adjusting the front shifting ? Just start over as if the bike was a brand new build and it was the first time the components were assembled.
Thank you! Solved my 4 hours problem in 5 minutes!
yep..another clear video from you guys. nice work!
Thank you for showing how to adjust the front derailleur..
What's the best front mec? No front mec! Lol
Bought a bike out of the box and when built the front mech was not in line.
I went gung ho into adjusting the front mec with racing shifters thinking I knew what I was doing. Mistake!
I couldn't shift down.
I followed this tutorial and now everything works great.
Great vid.
Thank you, really straight forward without explaining the meaning of life.
Thanks fellas, I have been so frustrated adjusting my front derailleur. but not anymore.
I have always made little adjustments, but the front never seemed to work right. Your video was simple as anything and worked perfect!!
Why did these guys stop making videos? These are some of the best bike maintenance videos on TH-cam.
Thank you for such information. I have those type of problems and I am in a rural area. My bike is just unridable at all at all coz of derailer problems. Now I can fix it myself, thank you so much.
well done video. no time wasting, useful overlays.
Thanks man. Got it all working right finally!
Now that is one thing have not done yet- lube on front derailleur- years of no lube on my FD- have not done that since I bought my bike- its doing great and have forgotten about it, just kept on using it when climbing hills until today it wont shift, maybe that will solve my FD's problem :-) Thanks for sharing..
I forget the front dérailleur lubing, too lol
Thanks, took me a couple of videos and clickbaits to find your video that was helpful
I chose your video because it was the shortest. Glad I did.
Thanks a lot. I was on trip and something happened so I never had done this by myself. Thank you
Massive thanks. My gears all run so sweet now
worked like a charm after this vid and with a first try! thanks!
We haven't made any videos since releasing these. We are working on more soon. The website is a long time out, more tutorials first... Thanks for the feedback!
Thank you, your video help me put a free Jamis XRail back on the road.
Best video to explain this procedure!!
Fantastic demo. Thanks for posting.
This is the clearest video explaining this! Thanks!
Awww, that's awesome - informative and entertaining as hell! Thanks!
I know a 3 week delay on a reply is like waiting 20 years in internet time, but thanks for the comment. I'm cracking a beer right now pondering our next video! Cheers!
Good clear, and concise. Liked this.
Great tutorial, thanks! I did find describing the lower limit screw as turning clockwise means "moves in" a little confusing. I would have thought "moves in" means "closer to the bike" but you mean "closer to the inner side of the chain". So your point of reference is the inner of the chain. On the upper limit you then reverse your point of reference to the outer of the chain. This is an inconsistent point of reference, the point of reference should be the bike in both cases. Otherwise very will explained.
These vids are excellent, everything you need from a tutorial
dang!!! I did it! so glad I found this channel!
clear and to the point, appreciated.
Worked! Cheers guys.
This worked so well for me. Thanks
What ever happened to the gear cable replacement video? These are the best videos I have seen. Please keep them coming! Also, sweetsbench domain is no longer active as a website.
Keep em coming. TWSS.
This video came in very handy thank you so much.
With this tips I will save some money over the time, not having to bring my bike to repair shop :) Thanks!
Great video,... informative and entertaining as hell thanks
Holy Crap-information overload. I feel like Homer Simpson when he was watching Troy McLure's half-assed guide to foundation repair.
Good work! Thanks for the comment
Another awsome video!!!
Thanks. My Derailleur is shifting smoothly now.
Helped very much, thanks!
I'm training to be a bike mec will be a full bike buy the end of year and hate front derailleur the just so touch it took me age to able to do it but I got great vid man nice and simple I like it
Thanks to your video i can assemble my new cycle
It's still parallel, you gotta remember the cage slopes down, so that's a visual effect from that top view.
perfect explanation how to do it; best i have seen
Makes it look realy easy. Thanks
This is a great instruction video for beginners..
Two things (1) The words that appear on screen in relation to moving the LOWER adjustment screw are the wrong way round. The arrows are, however, correct. In other words, turning the lower limit screw clockwise moves the deraileur out (ie. away from the frame; turning it counterclockwise moves it in (towards the frame). (2) The video is mostly shot from the rear of the bike. However, the close-ups are shot from the front of the bike (in the close-ups the pedal crank is on the left) which is an inconsistent and confusing approach.
Great videos!
Great fast talking video. Very helpful. Two minor complaints for future videos and anyone else coming across this that has a little trouble following along
0. Not really the a problem with the video, but it's easier to do this with the bike upside down if you don't have a stand
1. There doesn't seem to be any mention that the chain should be put on the smallest chain ring of the front set of gears when you're aligning and setting the height of the derailleur cage
2. At 1:40, the cable is reattached to the derailleur when at this point in the instructions it's supposed to be detached
Great video!
Thankyou so much, my team mechanic had to leave and I'm clueless when comes to this stuff.