Shifting problems

[Catrin]

I am trying to decide if I should take my LHT to the shop for a little adjustment of the RD - but wanted to see what TE members with more experience might advise on this.

Had some problems shifting this weekend - and that has not happened for a long time. For example, Saturday - knowing that a quite steep hill was lying in wait for me as soon as I turned a corner - I went ahead and shifted to the small chain just before turning. This was not under load, and I had already shifted the cassette up far enough so that it wouldn't be either too easy nor cross-chained.

The problem was that the chain didn't move, and it should have. I didn't drop the chain, but it took a little time to persuade the chain to shift. I shifted up and down with the trigger and it finally shifted. It wasn't a matter of needing to trim, I KNOW what that sounds like... the chain just wouldn't drop down to the small ring.

Yesterday there were no repeats, but I found myself having a trim a LOT more frequently....I also noted my brakes need adjusting, but I will try that myself at home. These cantis seem to need adjusting quite frequently.


EDITED: After thinking about this some more, I've decided to just consider it a miss-shift and just not worry about it unless it happens again and seems to develop a pattern. Am not worried about the brakes because if I like the V-brakes on my Gunnar, I suspect that I will change the brakes on my LHT to the same thing.