A Muzi <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:Chris said:Couple weeks back I crashed my road bike and broke the top most area of the body assembly on my
2003 record 10 speed right ergo lever.
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Quoted message said:Bolt it on the bike and run the cables, go to shift from the high gear. Nothing, the lever goes
through it's travel but no cable pull or click. Hit the low and high a couple times and it pops
up. Ok now we are getting some where, well too fast though. It only stops at 8 gears including
the low and high when going from low-high. So there's only like 5 or 6 actual gear clicks. I can
see the ratchet skipping over a couple of the teeth on the gear by the low shift(to bigger cogs)
lever. But when coming back down from low to high it usually hit's all ten gears. It also
continues to have the same problem I described above in the high gear 50% of the time and can
never get all the gears going up the cassette. Anyone else dealt w/ qbp and their campy service?
Not a good first experience for myself. I've worked with half a dozen or so ergo levers in the
past changing the # of speeds they can handle so I'm somewhat in the know on their dis-assembly
and re-assembly, but diagnosing this problem has got me. Anyone have an idea on what could be
the problem? BTW the shifters have never given me any issues in the past, and the crash seemed
to only damage that very high part of the shifter and nothing around the shift mechanism. I'm
not planning on sending this back to qbp or any other parts for servicing in the future. The sun
has shown itself, I wana ride.
Usually a cable problem exhibits exactly the opposite, missing shifts to high not low. Any reason
you didn't open the lever?
You wrote :
Quoted message said:It only stops at 8 gears including the low and high when going from low-high.
But then said:coming back down from low to high it usually hit's all ten gears.
So i have to admit I don't know what's wrong. Maybe Fogel can lend some tips on composition. Or in
film, they call it 'continuity'.
Dear Andrew,
Concerning composition, we often fuss about restricting the apostrophe to signalling contraction
(missin' letters) or non-pronoun possession (it's not used in my, mine, our, ours, your, yours, his,
her, hers, their, or theirs).
Using it just to warn that an "s" is a-comin' is frowned upon and "hits" a faintly off note in
writing, just as wavering between "i" and "I" lingers on the brink of fingernails on blackboards to
the over-sensitive.
(Curiously, we sometimes use the period for missin' letters and call it abbreviation--Mr. W.
Shakespeare in the U.K. comes to mind. But it ain't regular, as the D'Arbanvilles say.)
Screw 'em, as Shakespeare might say--it reads fine aloud. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation matter
about as much in this newsgroup as the paint job on the bicycle. We'd all like to have beautiful
bikes, but we're far more interested in how they work, not how they look. Those who make the
greatest fuss about the style of other people's posts often have the least to say and leave
themselves wide open to far harsher literary criticism.
But the topic was shifting up and down . . .
When ascending (shifting upward), the skilled violinist generally uses the open strings.
When descending (shifting downward), it is better to play the same note by fingering a lower string.
Unfortunately, in the first of the seven traditional fingering positions, this means that the easily
played open D string must instead be played as the same D note on the lower G string, so the fourth
and weakest finger is stretched way the hell over, and then ya gotta push down on that monster-thick
G-cable with yer pinkie, and the end of mine's mangled from when I dropped a rock on it as a kid.
(A modest pause ensues to admire the contractive apostrophe cleverly tacked onto the normally apostrophe-
free pronoun.)
It wouldn't be so bad if that damned Yitzhak Perlman would stop sitting there with that relaxed,
happy look on his face, as if he's just listening to music on headphones and finds what he's doing
no more difficult than idly drumming his fingers.
As for derailleurs not hitting the gears when shifting up, but hitting them when shifting down, I
haven't a clue. I use friction down-tube shifters and seven rear cogs, so these modern technological
fiascoes are beyond my experience. But if a damaged shifter refused to work, I'd replace it or have
someone peer into its guts and replace the bad parts.
There--that should be enough to illustrate how those who write most about style, grammar, spelling,
and punctuation have the least to say about how our two-wheeled contraptions work.
Digressively,
Carl Fogel
