On 12/21/2015 02:14 PM, Jim Bronson wrote:
A good rando always carries a spare shifter cable! I do!
Thing is, if you get unlucky the cable breaks and leaves little shards stuck inside the gears in the shifter mechanism. Getting them means a near disassembly, and several hours of work by a skilled mechanic which may end up unsuccessful. My first encounter with the STI shifter cable problem was a few years ago at Bike Virginia in the mountains of SW Virginia, when a friend from my bike club showed up at the first rest stop with a broken cable. They had an onsite mechanic, but only at the rest stop about 40 miles and 5,000' of elevation change down the road. When she got there, they looked at it and told her they had too much of a backlog (mainly people whose front derailleurs wouldn't shift on the hills) and told her to come to their tent at the end of the ride; when she did they told her she'd have to buy a new set brifters.
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