I had a SRAM X0 shifter fail while riding the tandem on the Isle of Skye. Well maintained. Not the cable. The ratchet wouldn't move to a larger rear sprocket. Probably not engineered to work with that much cable.
I could manually move the derailleur to the biggest gear and take off. We had ridden the route several times, so I shifted up to a gear we could pull up the hills before the next stop. It was a PITA, but we did catch a train back to Glasgow.
Last edited by DangerousDanR; 11-27-22 at 10:51 PM.
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