Quote Originally Posted by Miranda View Post
Kids' scooters, chewing cats (oh, and cute cat, btw)... gheez, don't these lil dharlings know we need our bikes to shift right?

aicabsolut... thx for the info on cables. I read this a while back in the thread and didn't pop any more in as it looked like things got resolved, but what a wonderful education. I love TE for this reason. My "cable stretch" term was from the shop owner that sold me my road bike. That place ended up being just a crooked mess for me that never lived up to what they promised. It's made me tainted when I go anywhere... sorta like the used car sales lot.

I have been thinking about switching out my spd pedals to eggbeaters on my mtb. Think I'll just leave it at the pedal purchase shop and see if they can resolve the problem with the shifting.
You're welcome. I started having some shifting problems last weekend and wound up snapping my rear cable out of the blue. Luckily, it happened when I went to tune up the bike after I had climbed up the mountain back to the house where I was staying. I needed my large cogs to make it up that beast. I certainly would have been walking if I'd been stuck in the little cog with a broken cable.