Fitting triggershifters

Shifters will wear out over time. The levers can be vulnerable in crashes. Occasionally they have a tendency to get tangled up when you pack your bike into cars, snapping off when you pull them out. It’s surprising how crisp new ones feel – you don’t notice the old ones getting sloppy and sluggish until you replace them.

New shifters almost always come supplied with a new cable, already fitted, which saves you from having to load the cable into the shifter. It’s worth taking a bit of care when fitting the new shifter though – avoid bending the cable where it emerges from the barrel-adjuster. Kinks in the cable will make it difficult to adjust your cable tension accurately. The boxes in which new shifters are packaged are carefully constructed to protect the cable; if you take the shifters out of the box to have a look at them, make sure you repack them carefully until you’re ready to fit them to your bike. Don’t allow the cable to drag on the ground, where it will pick up dirt. Keep it coiled up until you’re ready to…

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