Originally Posted by
50PlusCycling
I’ve never had a shifter cable break in hundreds of thousands of miles of riding.
If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred billion times... don't exaggerate!
Just kidding! On a
much smaller scale, though, I resonate with your comment. I have a Trek mountain bike that I bought 22 years ago, which has a low-end Shimano (3x8) drivetrain. I have a nice road bike a couple years younger with an Ultegra (3x9) drivetrain. Each bike has 6-7,000 miles on it. I'm still on the original shift cables. Since I'm an older guy (think "70Plus"), I tend to shift a lot.
I *have* had the occasional issue with the pawls in the shifters (trigger-types on the Trek and STI on the Airborne) getting stuck and failing to shift, but these have responded to soaking in WD-40 followed by spray lithium grease. Perhaps I've been lucky.
