Originally Posted by
Random11
I once thought that one advantage of mechanical shifters is that you don't have to be concerned about your battery dying.
Your use of the past tense ("once thought") suggests that you now think a dead battery
is a problem with mechanical shifting. Hmm.
Originally Posted by
Random11
But yesterday I had a shifter cable break. It's the second time I've had this happen on a bike I've had less than three years. So, that advantage isn't so much of an advantage after all. It got me to thinking that it might be worthwhile to change the cables periodically before they break. Does anyone do this?
That's a solid idea, as virtually any google search would confirm.
PS: This belongs in the Mechanics subforum rather than GC. Just saving
cxwrench the trouble of pointing this out.