New gear cables - Stiffy!
hello, me again.
I replaced all inner & outer cables today. For some reason, the gear levers are even stiffer than before, almost unusably so.
When assembling them , the cable moved freely through the outers and they were cut to match what i was replacing. I freed up the cable from the bars to make sure it wasn't contorted, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
The derailleurs move freely by hand, so the resistance has to be in the cable somewhere, or perhaps the cable guide.
Have I missed an obvious trick somewhere along the line?
I replaced all inner & outer cables today. For some reason, the gear levers are even stiffer than before, almost unusably so.
When assembling them , the cable moved freely through the outers and they were cut to match what i was replacing. I freed up the cable from the bars to make sure it wasn't contorted, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
The derailleurs move freely by hand, so the resistance has to be in the cable somewhere, or perhaps the cable guide.
Have I missed an obvious trick somewhere along the line?
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Are the pips on the cable at the shifter end correctly seated in the shifters?- - - - - - - - - -
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Are you using Shimano cables with SRAM shifters?0
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All pips and nipples present and correctly positioned.
Using generic Clarks inners & outers with Shimano 105 shifters. I noticed that the OD of the outer is slighter smaller than the stuff I was replacing.0 -
Are they 5700, ie the first 105's to have under bar tape shift cabling? I've read that they can be quite draggy with bog standard cables.
(I have the earlier 5600 with the less elegant cables coming out of the sides of the shifters and they get in the way of the lights and get right on my tits. Shifting is however pretty effortless)0 -
Peat wrote:New gear cables - Stiffy!
I like new cables as much as the next man, but I've never been affected in that way before
Yet to have a great experience with a Clarks cable though...0 -
When I first built my bike up the front was particularly stiff. I asked one of the guys in a good LBS and he thought it odd but said everything looked fine. Then the other mechanic said that the routing onto the front mech was wrong. It's hard to describe but there is a bit of casting that looks like the cable should go under it and onto the clamp bolt. But, the cable needs to go over it so increasing the leverage the cable can exert. Very small change made a huge difference. Quite a common mistake apparently.
That was only on the front though.0
