I've seen alot broken cables in STI shifters for years, sometimes resulting in the need for a new brifter. Jim (in icy Madison, WI been wrenching for 25+ years)
On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 5:28:32 PM UTC-6, Brewster Fong wrote: > > > On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 3:20:23 PM UTC-8, Steve Palincsar wrote: >> >> We're seeing a lot of broken right hand shift cables these days: there's >> some sort of >> fatigue point inside many Shimano STI units. But when the cable breaks, >> it's always at the shifter. > > > Yup, it appears that ever since Shimano decided to put their cabling under > the handlebar tape, there's been problems with the head of the shifter > cable breaking inside the STI lever: > > > http://jimlangley.blogspot.com/2007/09/q-cable-stuck-inside-shimano-sti.html > > This didn't seem to happen when Shimano had their STI cables outside of > the handlebar tape. > > >> That leaves lots of perfectly good cable >> attached to the rear derailleur. >> >> So unscrew the bolts on a water bottle cage. With your thumb push the >> rear derailleur in so that the chain lines up with a sprocket that will >> give you a couple of usable gears on your two chain rings, and put >> tension on the derailleur cable to hold it in place. Catch the cable >> under the water bottle cage and screw the bolts back down to hold the >> tension. >> > > Great advice! Good Luck! > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
