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What is a derailleur?

What is a derailleur? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The mechanism on a bicycle used to move the chain from one sprocket (gear) to another.
  2. The entire gearset on a bicycle with such a mechanism.
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Unfortunately, the saddle, the derailleur and brake levers have black carbon.
The rear derailleur is the current model, and the right hand shifter has been rebuilt with the appropriate cam for this derailleur.
If the chain is too long, the derailleur will rotate inward too far and bounce the upper jockey wheel through the chain on the largest cogs.
There's no barrel adjuster for the front derailleur, so eliminating derailleur rub in all gears is tough.
The first thing that I would check, is the position of the front derailleur in reference to the front chainrings.
And while the rear derailleur has been difficult to perfect, the front derailleur has proven to be the real challenge.

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