Didn’t really have much planned today so i thought, why not do something with the bike? If you have been following the blog, you might have read that my rear derailleur is bent and the front derailleur’s limit screw joint is broken. In response to that, I’ve been researching endlessly about the differences between some Suntour derailleurs and trim levels and what not. So I thought, might as well try playing around with the rear derailleur.

Usually the cage of the rear derailleur would run parallel to the gears on the cassette. Unfortunately, not in this case. From the looks of it, the cage itself is straight. Most cases of a “bent rear derailleur” is from the hangar (mine doesn’t use a hangar to mount on the bike) or it’s the cage, but neither is the case for this matter. I believe it’s derailleur itself. Or maybe, the end of the dropouts are bent? My initial solution to this was just to replace the rear derailleur. That’s a no-go though only because EVERYBODY that I’ve emailed so far who has some parts that i need on craigslist.org decided not to reply to my emails. /rant. So instead, I’ve decided just to clean the rear derailleur for the mean time.

Took the rear derailleur off from the frame but it was still had the shifter cable on there. Cleaned up the cage while it was still hanging since i was able to take that apart. In order to clean the rest, I had to separate it from the cable. I’m pretty confident that the cable was as old as the bike by the way it looked so I had no choice but to cut it to completely free the rear derailleur. Since the opportunity is here, I might as well replace the shifter cables for both front and rear derailleurs. Most likely tomorrow though. I have band practice in an hour and most of the local bike shops are closed by now.

The next project for the bike awaits…

Where’s the bike? lol.

I totally got owned. I need the bike chain tool in order to take it out. LOL You can tell that i made an attempt in trying to remove it. FAIL. It’ll be chillin’ on the side for now though…

The rear derailleur cables and both front and rear derailleurs. Gotta finish up cleaning the rear one the move on to the front one for kicks before i replace it later on. Hopefully cleaning the chain will extend the life for the chain just a bit longer too.

Until next time.