Originally Posted by balindamood
1). The shifters came with the cable fine adjustment screw for mounting on the road-bike style down-tube shift lever braise-ons. As this bike never had'em, there is no way to mount them, and thus, no fine adjustment screw. I have fiddled with it such that it more-or-less shifts into all three chain rings, but it needs to be adjusted such that it works more times than not, and a screwdriver and pliers only go so far. Does Shimano make a screw adjustment for the exit of the levers them selves, or do I have to get some old 10-speed screw barrel adjusters and JB-weld the stupid things to the lever housings
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I'm just going to address this issue and give you one possible solution (of which there are probably many).
If your down tube is of a standard size you can get clamp-on cable stops like those that are shown on this page:
http://www.biketoolsetc.com/index.cg...20Cable%20Stop
Then, you just need some in-line barrel adjusters like these (called "mickeys"):
http://www.biketoolsetc.com/index.cg...em_id=JW-NZ233
Place the cable stop clamp on the downtube a couple of inches, or so, down from the head tube. Take the narrow end of the mickeys and seat them in the holes provided in the cable stop clamp. Now, take your shifter cables coming from your hand controls, route them to the wide openning in the mickeys and, voila!, you now have in-line shift cable adjusters. The Tektro clamps come in 1 1/8, 1 1/4, and 1 3/8", so as long as your down tube is one of those diameters, this solution should work for you. Good luck!
P.S. The mickeys are sold individually, so make sure and get two ;-)