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Is my derailleur bent?
So my bike has been shifting really poorly in the middle gears lately. I cleaned the chain and degreased everything but it’s still occurring.
Looking at it on my bike stand I cannot tell if:
- The derailleur is bent
- The derailleur just needs adjusted
- My chain is borked
- My cassette is borked
- All of the above?
It will skip gears, chain falls back down a gear, clicking sound when pedaling, etc.
The high gear and low gears are mostly fine.
Pictures: https://i.imgur.com/uR1UxhK.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/ESVX5Y5.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/zBgFAqE.jpeg
It looks like the derailleur is slightly off kilter to me but would like outside opinions before I mess with adjusting it or whatever for the first time.
Videos: https://youtube.com/shorts/CalDQ-aIE4M?si=CZXB15YOeWLZp2Sr
u/ImKraiten — 15 hours ago