Originally Posted by
gauvins
... I might replace the shifter cable to see if it makes a material difference (a few gears need "encouragement" to engage; i.e. pushing the trigger above click). And component prices are apparently falling back to Earth. So... I'll see at the end of the summer, most likely will test-ride the Panorama cycle's Boreal and see if the fever comes back
If you have bare cables along the downtube, one other possibility. On one of my bikes with cable stops and bare shifter cables on the downtube, when I tried to get my shifting to be less sticky, I discovered that too much gravel trail riding resulted in a lot of dust that had accumulated on the bare cable and had been drawn into the cable housing. That created a lot of friction.