Originally Posted by
RaleighSport
If it's similar shimano cheapness, you probably just need to adjust the cable, and assuming you can get the pin fully seated without pinching the links there to tightly, I see no problem with doing that.. but more experienced heads will weigh in I'm sure.
6 speed chains, even the Shimano ones, are wide enough that you can
just do your normal break and repin, to my knowledge. I specifically
stopped using the bastards when they got to the two or three different
colored replacement pin depending on chainwidth stage, because I had
a friend or two who did significant damage to rear D and dropout with
a moving fast chain separation using a Shimano chain.
8 cog rear is as much as I own, so not really an issue for me. With regard
to those twist grip shifters, In my lifetime at the coop, I've tried to recable
about twenty of them. I think I successfully managed two of the earlier
ones (came apart by loosening an allen set screw).
So try not to personalize it. I usually tell people if they want to go at it,
here's how it comes apart and there's where the cable goes, good luck.
