Message from discussion New front chain rings - not able to use small one

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From: Rob Morley <nos...@ntlworld.com>
Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling
Subject: Re: New front chain rings - not able to use small one
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:03:14 -0000
Organization: FluffyWare Solutions
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In article <5t20foF16fn5...@mid.individual.net>, Peter Scandrett 
prgs-use...@scandrett.net says...
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> To cut a long story short, I discovered that the front gear wouldn't 
> shift onto the smallest cog. 
> 
> So - can I have some advice please? Do I need to bend the gear arm thing 
> so that it will push the chain onto the smallest cog (I was reluctant to 
> do this on the ride and still would rather not)? Have the rings been put 
> on the bottom bracket(?) too close to the frame so it can't shift to the 
> small one? What else might have changed that I can fix (and how)?
> 
It's most likely that the shop has fitted a chainset that needs a longer 
bottom bracket axle, but they've used the axle that was already there or 
whatever they had handy.  If that's the case it's never going to work 
properly - take it back and get them to fix it, then find a decent shop 
to use in future.