Originally Posted by
smd4
If people are having to adjust and tinker with their mechanical derailleurs or cables with the frequency suggested here, they’re doing something wrong.
Once properly adjusted, mechanical derailleurs are also “set and forget.”
Nobody is saying that.
But are you honestly going to say there were not two generations of Shimano shifters that did not chew up cables in 4-5,000 miles?
Or that new cables, housings, and ferrules do not require time to seat and/or stretch? After which one has to adjust.
Or that barrel adjusters aren't pretty much standard equipment, why is that
I think what I hear is electronic is set and forget. I have never had a mechanical shifter setup that was set and forget unless I go back to my 70's downtube campy friction levers.