Originally Posted by
pepperbelly
My wife just got a used Cannondale Synapse. It it almost new but sat for a few years.
The brifter doesn’t want to move to downshift. It did upshift.
I won’t force it, but it feels like it is hitting something when I try to move it.
It could be as simple as a bad shifter cable that needs to be replaced. I would start by disconnecting the cable and seeing if you can get it to downshift and upshift as you put vary tension on it.