cable broke!
Posted On Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at at 9:23 PM by MTB ManI had to cut short my ride this afternoon after work.
As I started climbing a short roller on Van Dyke I threw the rear derailleur into 1st and the cable let go ... no shift.
I did ignore the warning signs. A frayed piece of cable kept poking me in the finger when I shifted on the last ride. I just clipped the offending strand short with my wire cutters!
So I was stuck in 6th on the rear derailleur. Too hard of a gear for me to climb Orchard Hill. So I headed straight back to Matt's Mad Dog Bicycles and bought a piece of cable.
I botched it right away by not tinning the end with solder when I clipped the end off it. It unravelled pretty badly a couple of inches in from end. But I saved the day by 1. tinning the end. 2. tinning 2 inches back to stop the unravelling from getting worse and 3. Clipping out the unravelled strand from between the 2 tinned points so I could get the cable through all the holes.
It didn't matter strength wise because the end of the cable that was frayed was beyond the binding screw on the derailleur.
Whew!
That was 5 bucks saved!
Oh, by the way, I'm now in 727th place out of 12,151 total riders in MapMyRide Le Tour Challenge! No prizes though. :-(
I COULD use a head sweat or a water bottle! :-)
