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Looking for some advice from the resident experts here. Let me tell what I did, and what is happening, and my thought to fix it.
I needed a winter/bad weather commuter bike. I took a Fuji Absolute, 7 speed cassette 21 speed with flat bars, swapped the flats for drop handle bars off a Giant with 8 speed cassette 24 speed. (This change was made so I could accommodate bigger tires for slush and gravel winter roads).I have logged 240 miles on this bike. The only problem I have is getting all the gears to adjust right. Either the top side is perfect and bottom side clicks, or the top clicks and the bottom is perfect. Never skips, but noisy. Could it be the 7 to 8 speed switch? My thought was to swap the original 7 speed cassette to an 8 speed cassette to match what the handle bars are off. That way the spacing would be more like the shifters.
Is this the right direction? Or have I missed something?
Any other thoughts are always welcome. Again, no problems with shifting or riding, I just can't get all the gears to be adjusted at any point, either the big gear or the small gear but never both.
I needed a winter/bad weather commuter bike. I took a Fuji Absolute, 7 speed cassette 21 speed with flat bars, swapped the flats for drop handle bars off a Giant with 8 speed cassette 24 speed. (This change was made so I could accommodate bigger tires for slush and gravel winter roads).I have logged 240 miles on this bike. The only problem I have is getting all the gears to adjust right. Either the top side is perfect and bottom side clicks, or the top clicks and the bottom is perfect. Never skips, but noisy. Could it be the 7 to 8 speed switch? My thought was to swap the original 7 speed cassette to an 8 speed cassette to match what the handle bars are off. That way the spacing would be more like the shifters.
Is this the right direction? Or have I missed something?
Any other thoughts are always welcome. Again, no problems with shifting or riding, I just can't get all the gears to be adjusted at any point, either the big gear or the small gear but never both.