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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.
On the front derailleur shifter, the indexing cog appears to be exposed by design underneath the brake lever handle.
I can't seem to adjust the front derailleur to the point that I can eliminate chain rub in all gear combinations.
My current setup has 53x39 chainrings, a 12x25 cogset with a short cage rear derailleur, and I recently switched to a Wipperman 10-speed chain.
As for adjusting for cable stretch, as the cable stretches, the derailleur will move to larger cogs faster and slower to smaller cogs.
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.

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