Shifter worries
11-27-22, 08:22 AM
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It's good to see CrossCountryWrench is back!
If my ride breaks down I call my mom and she comes and fixes it for me.
If my ride breaks down I call my mom and she comes and fixes it for me.
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11-27-22, 08:39 AM
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In my experience, well maintained shifters don’t up and die. They might get gradually worse and less precise. Usually fixed by a bottle of tri flow and a puddle on the floor.
Certainly nothing that won’t make it the 15 miles home in this scenario.
Theres a lot of good advice here about getting home if you break a cable. The best being the line about regular cable replacement.
I’d carry a fork or seatpost before a new shifter, if I was one to carry things that might break.
Certainly nothing that won’t make it the 15 miles home in this scenario.
Theres a lot of good advice here about getting home if you break a cable. The best being the line about regular cable replacement.
I’d carry a fork or seatpost before a new shifter, if I was one to carry things that might break.
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11-27-22, 09:02 AM
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Variation of others' advice. The brifter is stuck in one gear. If it's high gear, just loosen the cable clamp at the derailleur, manually move the derailleur to an easier gear, pull the slack out of the cable and re-tighten.
11-27-22, 10:15 AM
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11-27-22, 02:16 PM
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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.
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.
However, you say your shifters are 10-speed, so I am assuming your shift housings come straight out of the shifter and are exposed rather than tucked under the bar tape. These older type of STI shifters are less likely to eat cables, but it does eventually happen after many thousands of miles.
11-27-22, 02:17 PM
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Not sure what's up with giving you a ban over there and not otherwise. Is there a Bike Forums parole officer you can talk to and work this out?
11-27-22, 02:33 PM
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I like cxwrench's solution. But if the cable fails at the shifter end or the cable is simply too frayed to be run into the RD, that's not going to work. (Well maybe if you brought a shop quality cable cutter.) I remember the old SunTours where I always managed to screw the limit screw in far enough to nearly center the RD over the freewheel. That always seemed to me something that should be a design requirement but I'm guessing that has gone by the wayside. The tie-off at the WB cage, now that I like. Do that with the barrel adjust at the RD screwed all the way in and the cable pulled tight to the desired cog. Back out the barrel adjust as your "knot" tightens and settles in.
11-27-22, 03:05 PM
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the altus a10 shifters on my 1992 giant tourer must have many miles on them but never had a mishappening with them, idem with my xt-780-t shifters which are on all of my mountain bikes which have already 6 years ago and not as much as miles on it but still.As for my road bikes, they all have down tube shifting.
11-27-22, 03:23 PM
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Shorten the chain and wrap it around a ridable gear combo, bypassing the derailleur. The chain tension will probably be less than great, but for the rest of your life you can insufferably flex that you ride a singlespeed.
11-27-22, 04:00 PM
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You can try but they seem to be on quite the power trip lording over their forum. Maybe they're waiting for Dec 1...or maybe the new year. I haven't heard anything.
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11-27-22, 04:15 PM
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That would be kinda funny. They seem to think I'm such a bad guy but all I've seen is support from you all. The mods think they're protecting everyone from me but all I've seen is people wanting me back. Who knows?
11-27-22, 04:25 PM
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Done. Anyone who agrees that you should be let back into the mechanics subforum can just go over there and add to the thread I just started. Maybe I’ll see you in purgatory.
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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.
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.
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