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The ability to adjust cable "tension" (actually the casing length...) is essential to fine tune the shifter/rear der relationship. Having a back up or second device to do this isn't wrong. Those who say otherwise have likely never faced the situation when their one device was unable to work and something had happened to make the adjusting need vital to continuing their ride. At work we see this loss of an adjuster's ability to work fairly often. usually from neglect (corrosion causing the threading to freeze up) and sometimes from an incident. But it has been fashionable to reduce the bike to the least needed (and sometimes less...) in search of either least cost or weight. Andy
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