Talk:Bicycles/Maintenance and Repair/Derailleurs/Rear Derailleur Adjustment

This page is an attempt to do a step by step adjustment procedure for the REAR-DERAILLEUR.

I have made use of one image from the DERAILLEUR ADJUSTMENT page, but have otherwise left that page untouched for the time being. I did not want to lose any of the description associated with it, while interested parties are trying to resolve the intended structure of the future book.

Is there different enough material on the FRONT-DERAILLEUR to make a separate page? Thoughts on the matter here would be appreciated.

Thanks, Armchair (talk) 10:28, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Bike Photo Support Needed
Good photos are a bit scarce for bike details. If there is a keen photographer out there, it would be useful to have some clear photos of basic bike parts. Also, lock types, locking methods, valve cores, derailleurs, brakes and any number of other items would be useful. Supreme clarity is the most desirable quality for such things, but so also is the ability to focus-out backgrounds using conventional photography; this gets rid of clutter better than the existing efforts with automatic cameras and phones. The entire book on bikes needs photo-nerd support.

The existing book will give the incumbent(s) an idea of what is needed to improve it, though it is likely that they will know more themselves.

Comments please...

Regards Armchair (talk) 15:41, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

html
This page contains quite a bit of html, even really unnecessary stuff like h2 tags, and has a lot of table based layout. I'm a wikipedian, new to wikibooks, so maybe this is normal here, but to me it seems like it makes things more complicated than they need to be. (I am familiar with both wiki markup and html) Could someone tell me why this was done, and if it was a concious decision? --Keithonearth (talk) 08:18, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Derailleur Drawing
I've made a SVG version of the badly pixelated drawing shown in the "Terminology" section, but I can't figure out how to upload it and include it. I've put it at http://dmwit.com/rear_derailleur.svg and will keep it there for at least one year from now. I release it under the same license as the original JPG drawing. Anybody who knows how to transfer it here, please do. Dmwit (talk) 05:15, 10 December 2010 (UTC)