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Shifting too much.
There's a Shimano design that has a habit of breaking in the shifter leaving an annoying to remove stub, I think it was the 6800 and their 105 equivalents.
snottyotter-
Thanks. Thinking about how much i've ridden that bike, probably happens every 2k km!
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Didn’t know this! Happened on my 6800 RH lever too, tho only once when my shifter was a bit jammed and I was forcing it.
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It’s because people pull the dual brifter lever inward while changing gears, eventually shredding enough wires to make the cable snap and leave the cable head firmly lodged in the newly stuck ratchet.
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I have a RH shimano 6800 shifter where the gear cable has broken 3/4 times within the shifter. What's happening there? Is it something i'm doing wrong during setup? Has something broken within the shifter which makes it more likely the cable will break there?
^reposting here as posted in wrong place before