Originally Posted by
frogman
So here you are 15 miles away from home, on a trail nowhere near any roadways on your gravel bike and your brifters crap out. How do you make field adjustments to lock them up to stay at least in a low gear so you can pedal back home ? That is my fear with the Shimano 10 speed
brake shifters. I had Shimano bar end shifters mounted up on the handlebar with Paul Thunbie mounts earlier and with them I could switch to friction shifting if the indexing crapped out, which was nice, but now I am spoiled with the Shimano brifters.
I have 10's of thousands of miles on 6600 brifters without issue of them crapping out. I have on bikes, when a cable broke out on the trail/road, jammed an appropriate size stick off the ground in the RD to hold it in a favorable gear. Another hack is tie off the exposed inner cable to hold it in the gear you desire.