Brake Levers - How to move?
After riding my bike for a bit, and noticing this a couple of weeks ago, i was riding the bike yesterday, and it really started to become noticable. My rear brake/front shifter pod has rotated slightly on the bars.
It currently looks like this.
So the lever just needs rotating anticlockwise a few degrees to straighten it up like the other side.
Just wondering how i do it? I'm a whizz with MTB stuff, but i don't even know how to remove the hood without damaging it!
Anyone able to tell me step by step what i need to do to spin the lever around without me popping down the LBS? It's going in for a free service next week anyway, but i'd quite like to learn how to move the shifters on my own. (It also needs the tape looking at, if you look at the bottom right, you can see the tape has unwinded itself slightly around the bar plug).
Cheers.
It currently looks like this.
So the lever just needs rotating anticlockwise a few degrees to straighten it up like the other side.
Just wondering how i do it? I'm a whizz with MTB stuff, but i don't even know how to remove the hood without damaging it!
Anyone able to tell me step by step what i need to do to spin the lever around without me popping down the LBS? It's going in for a free service next week anyway, but i'd quite like to learn how to move the shifters on my own. (It also needs the tape looking at, if you look at the bottom right, you can see the tape has unwinded itself slightly around the bar plug).
Cheers.
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The long (right?) way is to peel the hood up, take off your bar-tape, loosen the bolt that holds the shifter in place (look for a groove down the outside of the shifter), move the shifter, tighten everything back up, and re-wrap your bars with new tape.
What I would do though is brace the bars with my body and squeeze the entire shifter pod round till it's in the right place!FTT
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Yeh, was thinking of doing the 'force it round' method.
Didn't realise that it is a massive faff just to move the lever around!0 -
It's not, you just give it some 'persuasion'.
You might want to tighten the shifter once you get it in place. On Sora there is an Allen key bolt that you get to by peeling away the rubber from the front/top of the shifter, near a small groove down the outside of the shifter.FTT
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Why would you have to remove the bar tape to rotate the shifter slightly?More problems but still living....0
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Done it.
Did it at work this evening. Unclipped the rubber hood from the top, and pulled it back exposing the 5mm hex head, undo this half a turn, rotate the brake to where i wanted, and tightened it 3/4 of a turn so it's a little more tight. Hood back on, and jobs a good'n.
Cheers guys.0
