Why does my CHAIN....

[TBerk]

1) Jump off the front gear when I pedal backwards?

2) yank on the rear derailer sometimes making it snap backwards from
time to time?


Thanks in advance,
TBerk

[Bill Sornson]

TBerk wrote:
> 1) Jump off the front gear when I pedal backwards?

Alignment, stiff link.

> 2) yank on the rear derailer sometimes making it snap backwards from
> time to time?

Stiff link.

[catzz66]

TBerk wrote:
>
>
> 1) Jump off the front gear when I pedal backwards?
>
> 2) yank on the rear derailer sometimes making it snap backwards from
> time to time?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> TBerk

When was the last time you cleaned and lubed your chain?

[clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:13:02 -0700 (PDT), TBerk
<bayareaberk@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
>
>1) Jump off the front gear when I pedal backwards?
>
>2) yank on the rear derailer sometimes making it snap backwards from
>time to time?
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>TBerk
Does it by chance need cleaning and lubricating? A stiff chain WILL do
that.
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[TBerk]

On Apr 26, 4:27 am, catzz66 <catz...@threeletterservice.com> wrote:
> TBerk wrote:
>
> > 1) Jump off the front gear when I pedal backwards?
>
> > 2) yank on the rear derailer sometimes making it snap backwards from
> > time to time?
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > TBerk
>
> When was the last time you cleaned and lubed your chain?

Good point. I haven't.

What I _did_ do recently was take apart the rear dérailleur gears and
repack them with clean bearing grease. (I found some grass stems
wrapped up in there.)

I'll try the clean chain, lube inside of links, wipe down out side of
chain proceedure today and report back.


TBerk