Over many years I have resigned myself to the fact I am not mechanically inclined. It seems every single 30 second job I’m able to turn into a three hour nightmare, culminating in an expensive trip to the LBS.
Cut to today, I take my bike off the indoor trainer and put the rear wheel back on for my first outdoor ride of the season and am greeted with this. I can only describe it as extremely floppy with no tension!
Chain is extremely slack, almost falling off and the shifting no longer works – what did I manage to do and how expensive a trip to the LBS am I in for?
by TheRedCure
3 Comments
It’s not something you have done, the pivot the lower cage moves on has seized. It it fixable, but it’s a fiddly, tricky job, if you are not mechanicaly minded you will be better off taking it to a mechanic to fix or replace the whole thing. Good luck!
Edit: sometimes you can just pull the cage back and forth for a bit and it may free up enough to use for a while. Or it may not.
Have a mechanic take a look!
It is just a 105. Just swap it out for a new, working one.