tiagra 9 speed STI shifter maintenance

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
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Peter whenever you decide to retire from the bike biz. You have a
great future awaiting you here in the south as a Baptist Preacher :
)

I say, can you say it with me, I say....HALLLALUUUUYA BROTHERS AND
SISTERS!!!

You could call yourself...Reverend Campy? (After all, you perform
"services" that no doubt include the "laying on of hands"!)

Bill "still not ready to convert (but then again my STIs haven't {yet}
failed)" S.

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
wrote:
Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
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`snip STI shifter ratchet not catching

... Another option is Campagnolo, levers
and a rear der, that can be maintaned by taking them apart.

I am a bit torn with prices. New tiagra levers come to GBP105. New
mirage levers and rear mech come to GBP77 plus I will need new cables,

New Campagnolo levers come with a cable kit.
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Also, I was checking out a sora shifter today and it looks to me that
you can only upshift from the hoods, not from the drops. Is that right?

That is correct. In spite of the gent that said to take STI apart, I am
fairly 'mechanically inclined' and I have tried to take STI apart,
completely, and reassemble and I cannot do it. Just taking some covers
off and such to spray lube is not really taking the thing apart, ala
ERGO.

well, I did it last night. There semed to be plenty of lube in the
mechanism and not an excessive amount of gunk, or any obviously
sticking pawls. Having reassembled it, the lever is not /totaly/
unserviceable. The return springs don't quite worjk as they once did
but it will still reliably[1] shift one and sometimes two cogs if I
brace the other lever and manually pull them back. I knew I should
have gone to decathlon[2] on Friday.

This has been a really helpful thread for me

best wishes
james

[1] as reliably as before
[2] closest shop to work with a stock of camy equipped bikes to check
the levers out for fit with my hands

Bill Sornson wrote:
Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
wrote:
Peter whenever you decide to retire from the bike biz. You have a
great future awaiting you here in the south as a Baptist Preacher :
)

I say, can you say it with me, I say....HALLLALUUUUYA BROTHERS AND
SISTERS!!!

You could call yourself...Reverend Campy? (After all, you perform
"services" that no doubt include the "laying on of hands"!)

Bill "still not ready to convert (but then again my STIs haven't {yet}
failed)" S.

I like 'Doctor Campagnolo', nothing that implies I believe in any fairy
tales please.

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
Bill Sornson wrote:
Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
wrote:

Peter whenever you decide to retire from the bike biz. You have a
great future awaiting you here in the south as a Baptist Preacher
: )

I say, can you say it with me, I say....HALLLALUUUUYA BROTHERS AND
SISTERS!!!

You could call yourself...Reverend Campy? (After all, you perform
"services" that no doubt include the "laying on of hands"!)

Bill "still not ready to convert (but then again my STIs haven't
{yet} failed)" S.

I like 'Doctor Campagnolo', nothing that implies I believe in any
fairy tales please.

OK, Father.

eg eg

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
I like 'Doctor Campagnolo', nothing that implies I believe in any fairy
tales please.

Like the following fairy tale...

"tee heee...there are only two types of STI levers. Those that have
failed and those that will."

The fairy tale is implied: Campy levers will not fail. Oh how I wish
that were true, having recently Shimergo'ed to Campy levers and Shimano
everywhere else.

--
Dave
dvt at psu dot edu

in message , dvt ')
wrote:

Qui si parla Campagnolo wrote:
I like 'Doctor Campagnolo', nothing that implies I believe in any
fairy tales please.

Like the following fairy tale...

"tee heee...there are only two types of STI levers. Those that have
failed and those that will."

The fairy tale is implied: Campy levers will not fail. Oh how I wish
that were true, having recently Shimergo'ed to Campy levers and Shimano
everywhere else.

Campag levers /do/ fail, of course. The difference is that they're
(relatively) easy to fix when they do. The fist time I had to fix a
failed Campag lever, it took me all of ten minutes to strip it, five
minutes to order the correct replacement springs by telephone, and, two
days later, five minutes to reassemble it. Now I know the trick, the
next one will be quicker.

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; So, before proceeding with definitive screwing, choose the
;; position most congenital.
-- instructions for fitting bicycle handlebars