New to Shimano -- is this normal?

Francesco Devittori wrote:

You said that you cannot shift while braking. This is strange, I tried
it yesterday and I can: upshifting goes without problems. Downshifting
requires a bit more effort to find a finger that can do it, but with a
bit of practice it becomes easy.

After about 300 miles on the bike, I can now report that
it definitely DOES happen, but I've also found the lever
(the brake lever, not the inner lever) "stuck" where it
wouldn't shift at all, braking or not. If I shift the
inner lever it frees the outer lever, and I can then do
two shifts to get to where I wanted to be. This happens
about one shift out of 50.


Larry Coon
University of California

Francesco Devittori wrote:

You said that you cannot shift while braking. This is strange, I tried
it yesterday and I can: upshifting goes without problems. Downshifting
requires a bit more effort to find a finger that can do it, but with a
bit of practice it becomes easy.

After about 300 miles on the bike, I can now report that
it definitely DOES happen, but I've also found the lever
(the brake lever, not the inner lever) "stuck" where it
wouldn't shift at all, braking or not. If I shift the
inner lever it frees the outer lever, and I can then do
two shifts to get to where I wanted to be. This happens
about one shift out of 50.


Larry Coon
University of California

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:


vecchio-true again, see above. a 'loose' inner wire for the front der when on
the smallest ring may help this.

ICO- -- I can't change gears while braking. Do people
brake with the front, shift with the back and
vice-versa? BRBR

Vecchio-true again, when the shift lever is also the brake lever-you cannot.

Well thats another impossible thing I do all the time then

Stan Cox

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:


vecchio-true again, see above. a 'loose' inner wire for the front der when on
the smallest ring may help this.

ICO- -- I can't change gears while braking. Do people
brake with the front, shift with the back and
vice-versa? BRBR

Vecchio-true again, when the shift lever is also the brake lever-you cannot.

Well thats another impossible thing I do all the time then

Stan Cox

(Qui si parla Campagnolo ) wrote in message ...

amit- because some newbie hasn't figured out how to use STI which works for
thousands of riders of all levels he should switch to Campy ?

how retarded is that ? BRBR

I think what is 'retarded' is shimano not being able to listen to the
complaints of cyclists and not change their design.
Like hidden housing and repairable levers and lousy triples and obsoltete BBs
and ..........

duh, what does any of those things have to do with a guy having
trouble using the same components thousands of others are able to ?

(Qui si parla Campagnolo ) wrote in message ...

amit- because some newbie hasn't figured out how to use STI which works for
thousands of riders of all levels he should switch to Campy ?

how retarded is that ? BRBR

I think what is 'retarded' is shimano not being able to listen to the
complaints of cyclists and not change their design.
Like hidden housing and repairable levers and lousy triples and obsoltete BBs
and ..........

duh, what does any of those things have to do with a guy having
trouble using the same components thousands of others are able to ?