Steve, I think you're onto something - but the only places shifter cables have broken on me were always at the derailleur clamp. Also seen wear damage anywhere the cable goes in or out of a housing.
On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 6:05:35 AM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 07/02/2015 10:59 PM, 'Tim' via RBW Owners Bunch wrote: > > I'm so frustrated with my drive train. I had Shimano 9 speed bar ends > with a front triple. They worked great in index mode. The indexing got > finicky so I switched to friction. > > So something went wrong with your drive train, and it is still wrong. > 9 speed Shimano bar end shifting, in my experience of many tens of > thousands of miles, is never "finicky" unless something is failing. > One suspect is a fraying shift cable. Usually this happens right at the > shift lever so a broken strand pokes your finger and gives you early > warning of impending failure, but it's not the only possibility. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
