Quote Originally Posted by DebW View Post
Is the cable frayed? Look inside the shift lever. Is the housing frayed, wires sticking out of it, or the ferrule worn through? Could the cable anchor bolt on the deraulleur be stripped? Is the cable not running under the bottom bracket correctly?
Cable bolt's good. (The slack is between the plastic thing under the bottom bracket that holds the cables and the shift lever, somewhere. I imagine a stripped cable anchor bolt would result in slack all the way through. Am I correct?) Cable seems to be running under the bottom bracket correctly. (I even cleaned out a bunch of gunk in that area.)

At risk of sounding thick, how exactly would I go about looking for a frayed cable, and where, within all the stuff up there? (My shift levers have that freaking thumb trigger, being Sora, so that may impact where I have to look. The book is not helping here.)