Front Derailleur Adjustment Made Easy — Smooth Shifting, No Rubbing

Front derailleur rubbing, grinding, or shifting slow? In this video, I show you how to adjust a front derailleur from the beginning so you can get cleaner, smoother, quieter shifting on a 3x drivetrain. I’m working on a Raleigh Cadent 2 with a Shimano Tourney front derailleur, but this same setup process works on many hybrid bikes, commuter bikes, older mountain bikes, and flat bar bikes with a triple crankset. Instead of randomly turning limit screws and hoping the noise goes away, I reset everything from the start. I shift into the smallest chainring, move the rear derailleur to the biggest cog, disconnect the front derailleur cable, set the derailleur height and angle, adjust the low limit screw, reconnect the cable, fine-tune the barrel adjuster, check the high limit screw, and then test the shifting in real-world gears. One of the biggest mistakes people make is adjusting the front derailleur while fighting cable tension. The derailleur spring pulls the cage inward toward the small chainring, while the cable pulls it outward toward the middle and big chainrings. Once you understand that, front derailleur adjustment makes a lot more sense. If your bike has chain rub, noisy shifting, poor front shifting, trouble shifting into the big ring, or the chain dropping off the inside or outside, this step-by-step front derailleur setup should help. Some rubbing in extreme gear combinations can be normal on a 3x drivetrain. That’s called cross-chaining. The goal is smooth shifting and quiet running in the gear combinations you actually use. Chapters 0:00 Front derailleur rubbing, grinding, and slow shifting 0:16 Start over before turning limit screws 0:48 Set derailleur height and cage angle 1:26 Adjust the low limit screw 2:03 Cable tension and barrel adjuster setup 2:56 High limit screw, cross-chaining, and final test #FrontDerailleur, #BikeRepair, #BikeMaintenance, #DerailleurAdjustment, #ShimanoTourney, #BicycleRepair, #DIYBikeRepair, #BikeShifting, #BikeMechanic, #HybridBike, #CommuterBike, #RaleighCadent, #3xDrivetrain, #BikeTips, #KeepPedaling ************************************************************************* I only recommend items I actually OWN and use. The links above may provide a small advertising commission at no added cost to you.