Replacing Road Bike Rear Derailleur Cable

Replacing a bicycle s cable is done the same way on almost all bicycle derailleurs and shifters.

Replacing road bike rear derailleur cable. 18 tighten the cable clamp route the cable inner through the grooves and guides of the rear derailleur into the clamp. Before you fit the cable into the derailleur wind in the barrel adjuster all the way then back it off by two full turns. Loosen the cable anchor bolt the bolt that clamps the inner wire at the bicycle derailleur body. You ll need a derailleur cable some.

How to adjust a rear derailleur. Take your new section of outer and thread it over the cable. Quick shimano dura ace brake cable replacement giant tcr road bike duration. You now need to check the indexing of the rear derailleur.

Then pull the inner wire out of the bicycle s shifter. You don t have to be a mechanic to replace the rear derailleur cable. Pull the cable inner wire out of the derailleur and cable casing. Replacing the gear cable on a shimano 105 shifter.

After reading this mtb how to you should be an expert on how to install and set up your rear derailleur here we are going to be installing a shimano xt m8000 rear derailleur for a 1x11 drivetrain. Pull the cable so that it is tight but not so that it pulls the derailleur s parallelogram then tighten the clamp bolt.