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Do you have problems shifting down the block, from large cogs to smaller ones?
I've just spent a week working back through the system and realised that the cable-end in the shifter does not follow the ratchet correctly. The ratchet moves when you click to go down a gear, but the cable just sits there.
There is a small piece of red plastic broken off the bit the cable rests in, which doesn't give me much confidence, but I'm not convinced it actually has anything to do with it.
I don't know for sure if this behaviour is a fault with my shifter or bad installation. Before I decide, I wondered if anyone else has had similar problems - is it a 'feature' of Rival? Should I upgrade my shifter unit? Any advice or experience?
Ta.
I've had this twice recently, seemingly caused by a significant intolerance to even slightly sticky cables at the shifter end. Also, there are two cable routes out of the shifter. One route puts too much of a kink in the cable
Thanks jamie, that sort of confirms what I was thinking.
Didn't know about the two cable routes, but I did think it seemed pretty tight as I took it off the bars this morning.
I was on the point of sending the shifter unit back, but I think I'll just get a new cable, and re-install it myself – see if I can do any better.
You can see in the top pic where a little shard of the red bit has come away ... but I don't think it looks like that would kill it. (Obvs I've removed the bit of plastic from the ratchet mechanism now.)
Looking at the bottom pic, it all looks fine, I think…?
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