Originally Posted by
HillRider
Push the inner lever multiple times while pulling gently on the cable to assure the shifter is in the smallest cog position. Then the cable head should be visible in the entry hole and you can push it out. From your pictures it appears the shifter is in one of the lower gear positions.
I am pressing on to the inner black shifter lever with no success. It doesn't budge. It only works a few clicks of the outer lever when I push the cable further in (instead of pulling out) and then same number of clicks back to the original position. The end of the cable isn't in sight from the round circular hole. I even tried to pull the cable from the hole with alligator pliers but it won't move.
Any idea of a ballpark price a LBS would charge to help me get it out?