Sir Ridesalot wrote:

But he said that turning the adjuster barrel
in (clockwise) cure his problem. Thus he does
not have a sticking cable. He wants to know
why the cable suddenly got tighter than it
was before.

Well, yeah, this was the initial approach and
what actually happened. But I suppose there are
several variables to it and me oiling the chain
without removing excess oil probably brought
a lot of it onto the sprockets which I now
understand is undesirable.

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