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Conference noted::bicycle

Title: Bicycling
Notice:Bicycling for Fun
Moderator:JAMIN::WASSER
Created:Mon Apr 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3214
Total number of notes:31946

732.0. "weak! Shimano shifter brackets" by TLE::REID (Hop them Rocks!) Wed Jun 15 1988 18:37

    If you have bought a mountain bike this year with Shimano Exage
    (mountain or trail) thumb shifters, then beware of weak metal 
    brackets/nuts.

    Within 3 weeks of getting my Specialized bike, one of the thumb
    shifters broke off, shearing the nut thread.

    The store I bought it at said there was a known problem with these,
    and Shimano are producing thicker brackets to give the nuts more
    grip. As far as I know, you should be able to exchange them when
    the new brackets become available. (That's what I've been told).
    I made a temporary bodge of using a longer nut of the same thread.

    Meanwhile, don't give the shifters too much jip - it's not very
    easy changing gears when the shifter isn't actually attached to
    anything!

    Happy hopping!

        d:){=| Dave
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