Originally Posted by
10 Wheels
Just keep riding.
Thank you. That's what I did after I read your post and the bike functioned just fine.
Originally Posted by
sheltonlp
Just make sure you have a mini tool with you in case you need to adjust it again during a ride. If I were you I would probably start from scratch though and make sure everything is adjusted correctly...both the front and rear derailleur. I'm sure it's nothing major...
I do carry two inner tubes, three tire levers, 4 CO2 cartridges and a 12 in 1 tool because I believe in overkill. I almost gave up and was going to start over last night but the shifters worked after the second attempt and the very short test ride didn't show the symptom again.
Originally Posted by
RubeRad
LOL my bike is working great, and I can't understand it!
Seriously though, when you shifted into the big cog, and then 'shifted down even though it was on the biggest cog already a couple of times', you felt the shifter giving tactile feedback of shifting mechanism happening? Like 'click' and everything?
Are you sure you don't have your cable(s) way too tight and wanting to send stuff off the cassette (but limited by the limit screw)?
That doesn't really seem to make sense, but I can't make much sense of your reported behavior either, just spitballing.
All the cables and housing are well-seated in their ferrules and stops?
When you were trying/failing to shift up, did you get the typical shift/click sound/feeling but nothing happened at the derailleur? Or was the upshift lever frozen? Or did it move with no resistance?
Are the derailleur(s) pivot mechanisms lubed and freely-moving? If they are not, that would explain how the cable could pull them in the big direction, but the derailleur-spring not being able to force the derailleur back to small direction when cable is loosened, and maybe working it through the first time cracked them open?
Where near the LA river do you live, and when do you ride, so I can stand down there and wait for a free bike?
Meanwhile I agree with 10 Wheels, if it's working, keep riding, just gradually expand your range from home as your confidence grows.
LOL! When you put it
that way, of course it sounds funny. I've just learned to
not ignore symptoms from my watchmaking hobby; I've overlooked some esoteric symptoms and ended up having to completely take apart the movement to adjust something and reassemble. While a bicycle is much easier to diagnose because everything is so big and exposed, my lack of experience helps to make things much more difficult figure out.
It's academic now but you asked a good question: there was
no resistance of any kind when I tried to use the small levers on both sides. If it was tight or stuck, I would've looked at the tension but with nothing happening at all--not even a click--I didn't know what the hell was going on. My first thought was that I bought broken levers (they were a take-off from eBay) followed-up with my thinking that I just messed up the lever somehow.
And sorry, no free bike today (lol).
Originally Posted by
AlexCyclistRoch
Sounds like a cable/casing problem, like maybe the new endcaps are catching the cable, or maybe you wrapped the bar tape too tight. Or maybe you put a larger shifter cable into the old, smaller casing? You DID replace the cables, didn't you?
Funny you should ask about the cables; I was planning to recycle them but replaced them since I had the new parts. I thought that with less than 200 miles of use on all of the parts, I would be okay reusing the cables. But alas, the fact that both the brake and shifting cables run under the tape instead one set out (Sora setup), I had to use the new cables.
Originally Posted by
wschruba
FYI, if your hoods are rolled up, as if cabling or wrapping bars, the return levers will not work. This is entirely repeatable, and I find it likely, if you were working on the bike.
Now
that's interesting information! I think that hoods
were up when I first tested them. I can't remember for sure because I don't remember pulling them down while I was turning the crank when I first tested them. None the less, this bit of knowledge makes me feel better.
Thank you to everyone for your suggestions and help. My ride earlier this evening was a success so I'll ride the bike in confidence.