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Question by duckit: what is the difference between a trail bike and a cross country bike? and how do you classify such categories?
and please tell me how to adjust my cables for my chainrings…how do i adjust the cable tension on a shimano EZ FIRE Plus Low Profile Shift/Brake Lever (V-brake) for the front derailleur?

Best answer:

Answer by Max Edison
Pretty much the same, trail/cross country bikes are both ideally lightweight bikes capable of climbing, a ‘trail’ bike may have a more vertical fork to allow sharper turns, neither will have a lot of suspension travel.

On the shifter cable, it’s pretty easy, for fine adjustments turning the knob where the cable housing goes into the shifter clockwise (from the cable end) will let off tension, counter clockwise will increase it. If it needs to be adjusted a lot, loosen the nut holding the cable to the d-rail, turn the adjuster on the shifter all the way in, pull the cable a bit tighter, make fine adjustments at the shifter.

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