Is this the most underrated spare for a long ride? 🔧
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
- Is this the most underrated spare to take with you on a long ride? 🔧 Next time you snap a gear cable you won’t have to slog it home in the hardest gear 🥵 Or with a load of cable coiled up! ⚠️
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Had a cable snap on me once at 60 miles into a 120 mile ride. A pal had a gear cable in his wee bag for 3 years that he never used. Worked perfect.
How many 10,000’s of miles of use was there on that cable?
Also, the high limit screw all the way in can get you onto cog 4 maybe cog 5, then just work between your front chainrings to get home.
This instead of carrying a cable.
This is a much better video than the first example of the on the trail fix. Need to have the spare cable piece in the bag already
I'm guessing, The barrel adjuster should work for fine adjustments.
Possible with just a screwdriver, no cable needed
I'll just bring a battery for the wireless SRAM Etap :-)
Just dial in the lower limit screw
But to what extend can you do that?
@@sebastiandomagala9233 enough to get you home. Done it twice in the past. I'm fully Di2 now
@@sebastiandomagala9233far enough that it’s on the second or third gear in most cases
@@am529 Not sure if I would like to readjust after changing the cables, although it's not really mich to do. Just inserting a small piece seems less work in the long run. And you can choose freely which gear to install.
Is there Di2 version available🤔
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Yes,i've done it,screw the high limit screw all the way in to get you up the cassetts a bit.
Thanks GCN. I haven't thought about this before but will now forever carry one. Especially if touring!
Or carry a screwdriver bit and adjust the limit screw until you're in easier gear;)
Use the one that snapped and tie the long piece around something. It's one of those things that never happens unless of course it does happen. Like a broken chain. Don't forget to pack a jumper in case the weather turns nasty.
Good hack
True! Was missing this recently 😂
Could just limit the high screw also
The cable is the one giving tension for the cage to move and stay in position limit screws are only limiters to prevent your cage going off the cassette
@Fugitive_8 you are correct but you can limit it so it doesn't go down to the hardest gear. You can limit it upinto an easier gear
Great - something else I've got to carry!!
Lightweight though
How many times you saw a rear mech cable snap?
Bring a whole cable!
Takes up a bit more space though and can be ar to store 👀
What if it’s not easy to get the snapped cable mess out of your frame?
@@michaelhelduser6762 Then use this hack with your coiled up cable. But you might very well be able to pass the new cable and be back to normal.
Is everybody getting exited in their lycra costumes looking at that derailleur, iknow i am. ohhh.
Useless for me now but could've come in handy in the past!
Limit screw, limit screwww!!!
Is that going to get you far up the cassette though?
@@davidf2281 no it won’t .. 2 or 3 cogs at best
@@davidf2281Actually yes
Depends on the exact derailleur you got, some have more range than others in the limit screws
This is pointless, just change the limit screws and cycle home, you will still have a big and small ring for 2 gears anyway.
genius.
Cut the wire with my teeth.
How does a gear cable snap? The forces aren't that high. (I have, however, managed to snap a brake cable once. Two years of winter riding apparently lead to a bit of corrosion. Add wet rims and not pefectly set-up cantilever brakes, and you end up applying a hell of a lot of force...)
Thr shift cable will fray inside the shift lever! They are really hard to pick out! It's a good idea to replace the shift cables every year.
Gear cables wear and eventually fray around the bends in the shifter. Especially with some downtube shifters - due tighter bends.
On the plus side, when the cable wears and frays on downtube shifters, usually you'll feel a frayed cable end poking your finger when you reach down to shift. So there's usually time to replace the cable before it snaps.
They definitely fail, sometimes without tons of mileage. I've had one fail with less than 5000miles and kept others for +20k miles that probably would have kept going for a while.
why not just use the dereailleur end adjustment screw for this?
In theory yes but how far in do you get, let's say on a typical Shimano derailleur? Probably not 4-5 cogs inward so that you have a good middle-of-the road ratio?
What if you snap the front derailleur cable?
That fails to the easier gear. The rear fails to the hardest gear
34ring no need
Na... di2 mate
Or - and I'm going out on a limb, here - just use the broken cable?
Many times the cable will break inside the shifter, so it is a pain to remove, and then you still wouldn't have the plug at the end to create some tension on the derailleur.
And so, the love of single speed begins...
Génial
How am I supposed to cut down a gear cable on the road which is 4ft long? I would rather dial in the high limit screw in to get it to an easier gear.
I think they mean bring a pre cut cable
A used cable that is too short to be used as a shift cable
Buy electric gears and don’t have to carry the cable spare
Just the spare battery.
£1000 groupset Vs left over bit of cable two very different solutions
While this is true everywhere, why is it especially bad in America?