Originally Posted by
prj71
The oldest bike, the 2016 hard tail mountain bike, has over 4000 miles on it right now.
The road bike (the one you indicated that I should be having problems with annually because of notorious cable problems with Shimano shifiters) has around ~2900 miles.
Neither are a problem at the moment so I'll keep riding them as is. The obvious part is that I recognize that I don't need to change my cables and housing on an annual basis based on what some guy on the internet says. And as a bonus I keep more money in bank account.
Reading between the lines, the rest of your bikes have much less mileage.
Mountain bike shifters don't have the cable eating problem. Shimano STI shifters of the 5700/6700/7900 generation and beyond have the problem. 2900 miles with no problems? You're very lucky or on borrowed time.