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Why Your Derailleur Captured the Wheel Spokes

You are riding along a beautiful nature trail with an incline approaching. You shift up to your largest rear sprocket and before the climb, the bike comes to a halt and the heart breaking sound in heard. “crunch!” With tears in your eyes you gaze upon your derailleur. The lower pulleys of the derailleur has captured the rear spoke wheels and rapped itself upwards, twisting your chain.

The Derailleur: the Key to Dating Your Vintage Bicycle

The Derailleur: the Key to dating Your Vintage Bicycle

The Derailleur, the mechanism that is older than your great grandmother, yet it is the miracle drive system of bicycles worldwide. The first samples of a gear changing mechanism can be found as far back as the late 1800s. But first patent for the derailleur can be attributed to Paul De Vivie, a touring cyclist…
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