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Old 04-22-14 | 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jmilleronaire
Yeah, it was shifting just fine on the ride in, even with the broken tooth. on the ride home, it wouldn't go into the largest cog at all, and would go off the smallest cog and jam if i wasn't extremely careful. I had to turn off the indexing and just do friction to have it engage cogs at all. Seems like someone cranked on the shifter while it was sitting and messed up the cable length in some way? Also, it looks like it's slightly "twisted", where the idlers aren't quite in line with the cogs now.

It's a bit disheartening to think I can't leave my bike inside a professional office building and trust that people know not to play around with things that aren't theirs.
With the horrifying headwind, I *really* wanted that largest cog, too.
That sounds like a bent DR hanger. It's possible that it got knocked over or something banged into it - it could be an accident not deliberate messing with.
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