Broken shifter?

M6TTF
M6TTF Posts: 602
edited May 2009 in MTB workshop & tech
Fortunately I had nearly finished my ride and was only a couple of miles from home. I'm unable to shift up the cassette, the lever doesn't have any tension on it, but it shifts down fine? Something come astray in the shifter perhaps? They're deore btw

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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    lose cable?
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • M6TTF
    M6TTF Posts: 602
    Doesn't seem to be, surely it wouldn't change in either direction?
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    but you say
    I'm unable to shift up the cassette, the lever doesn't have any tension on it, but it shifts down fine

    how does it go down if you can go up?

    disconnect the mech,Or find another way to put tension on the cable and see what happens.

    yes the shifter may be bust but work through the parts and see.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • M6TTF
    M6TTF Posts: 602
    I see what you mean, I was mid block when it happened hence being able to go down. I'll have a fiddle and see what's what
  • M6TTF
    M6TTF Posts: 602
    There was no problem with the cable, and I changed inners and outers just the other week. So I took the plate off the bottom of the shifter and bingo, a little piece of metal dropped out. I couldn't see where it should be, but its snapped off something so new shifter time. The bikes not a year old yet, would the shifter be under warranty?

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