Originally Posted by phrantic09

Yesterday was a terrible ride. I got 35 miles in, was heading down a hill and coming back up the other side tried shifting to an easier gear and nothing moved. The cable had sheared off in the shifter giving me only big/small and small/small. I rode it 20 miles to the local Trek Store (they’re pretty good in an emergency) and they got me sorted out. It took about 90 minutes because of how wrecked the cable was and getting everything out, by that time I’d been still too long, wasted too much time and was over it. Rode 25 miles home and called it a day. Really wanted 100, but it was too hot and too late.