Originally Posted by Avalanche325
I am a bit confused about this. I am talking about Ultegra here. My LBS told me that they had to change the front shifter, BB, cranks, and front der.
After looking at the Shimano web site, it looks like I need the BB, cranks, front der, and rear der (longer cage) changed and NOT the shifter.
Some of you wrenches please help. I am supposed to pick it up today after work and I want to make sure it is right.
The rear der makes sense as now there will be more chain to take up when going to the small chain ring. What about the front shifer? Does it handle both?
The shifter actually has four shift positions. When properly set up on a triple, you get one granny position, two for the middle ring and one for the big ring. As a double you get two positions for each chainring.
To me the neat thing is the Flight Deck computer. It gets the chainrings right double or triple too.