Hi Deb. My bike is a Raleigh Mixte, possibly early 1980s model. She only has a rear derailleur. He didn't tighten the lever itself, but tightened the cable on the derailleur itself - a bit too much I think.

I've just come back from a 5 mile ride - wasn't going to go out tonight but got my arm twisted by my son as there was a major fire somewhere so I got dragged out to investigate Turned out it was a load of old tyres in a farm about 2 - 3 miles from where we live.

I'm able to change gear to the smaller cogs easily enough, it's going the other way onto the bigger cogs that I have a problem shifting to. I'm going to give the bike the once-over after I finish my coffee and see if I can get the gearing to run a bit easier.

The back brake just needs the cable adjusted slightly. The bike is still stopping OK but not as good as it was this morning. I think he's set the wheels slightly different because even my sensor for the computer is catching so I'll have to reset that as well. I think I was happier the way the bike was but the tyres were badly cracked on the side wall and it was only a matter of time before they gave up the ghost.