Originally Posted by
kidadam
Yes one is having difficult time to time. I knew that before buying - I thought I could replace it with bar ends if worse comes to worst. Does anyone know if it's something that can be fixed?
I think cleaning and lubricating the sticky brifter is what others have done, but I have no experience with that.
It would be easy to change to bar end shifters. I do not know the Shimano part numbers, my bar end shifters are eight, not nine speed. I think Microshift also makes some, but I have never used theirs. And a pair of Tectro or Cane Creek brake levers if you did not want to use the Shimano ones on the bike. Likely new cables with outer housing, bar tape. I have three bikes with bar end shifters, I prefer them for touring over brifters.