HELP NEEDED DESPERATELY!

[lewis_sharman]

i have just bought a new bike (in pieces still in the box), stupidly thinking i would just need to assemble the front wheel and handlebars. But, to my delight, none of the gears are connected and the manual is no use, so at the moment i have a bike with two cables totally seperate.

i need some help on how to connect them to the handlebars and then to the actual gearing system.

diagrams would be useful to.

Im generally quite good doing things like this but im at a complete loss.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[prand]

What type of bike? What sort of handlebars? what make of gears? pics would help.

[lewis_sharman]

After much fettling it is all done. And it was a road / race bike.

Ready to go to work on tomorrow now

[Hard-Drive]

I'm guessing that you probably are not that familiar with bike mechanics, so I would suggest that you get someone knowlegeable to check it over. Particularly the brakes, headset adjustment, and also make sure that your mech stop screws are set right...

[gorisan26]

Take it to a shop.....it'll cost you less in the long run!!!

[henrycrun]

BTW I have spotted mail order bikes whose owners managed to assemble the forks back to front.....