Why Does My Bike Keep Slipping Gears. Grinding cables will not move easily when the gears are shifted and this will cause a strain slipping the gears back to where they were. When your bike chain skips between gears while youre riding or shifts twice instead of once when you try to change gears the most common culprit is a loose cable.
Adjusting your rear derailleur limit screws. Chain skipping gears is the more common of the two situations. I show the most common causes for chains that skip slip jump gears while pedaling auto-shiftingphantom shifting derailleur especially while under torqu.
In the first half dozen rides on a new bike your shift cables stretch the most.
Often a skipping bike chain is due to a cable stretch. On a cold morning I am unable to get my bike to catch the pedals at all. Bicycle Chain Skips Gears. This is common especially as new cable stretches often causing the derailleur to shift incorrectly.
