Originally Posted by
noglider
Oh my goodness, you're right. And I was shifting gently and as little as possible to forestall what I thought was inevitable. Thank you!
I really didn't want to buy a whole new pair of brifters. I'm surprised I can get them for as little as $85, but still. @
maddog34, are they really that bad?
any brifter, shifter, brake lever, etc. can break.
brifters, in general, can be troublesome... they get "sticky", springs wear out, levers break... and a crash can scar up the housings which causes them to be a pain to use.... and some older shimano 105-ultegra-DA ones like to break the shift cables INSIDE the levers... getting the cable remnant out can be quite epic, especially when you have a race start coming up in 20 minutes.....
i change those particular cables every season now.... and any time the shifting on that bike changes suddenly for no other good reason...
but they sure work nice until they fail, eh?
and then... there's trying to get shimano type shift cables out of old Campy downtube shifters.... at least those stuck ducks are easy to access with tools.. drills, pin punches, hammers, pick axes, 9mm semi auto, C4.
