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Hi there,
I have the brilliant Boardmans Team Carbon road bike with the SRAM Rival Groupset. It started off as a brilliant groupset, the gear change was clean and precise. I had only ever needed to adjust the setup/indexing once at the start and its been fine.
The more and more im using it, the more sloppy the gear change seems to be becoming. I've read somewhere on here that the cables they use are the cheapest possible to keep costs down. From what I can see is they are Shimano SIS cable.. I don't know anything about cables or if this is good/bad etc?
Do you reckon I need to get new cables fitted? Is there such thing as a good or bad cable???
I'm avoiding Halfords at all costs and trying to minimise my LBS useage for minor gear tweaks (due to lack of funds) if posible so your advise would be greatly appreciated. Obvously I'd leave changing the cables to the pros in a proper LBS, but I don't want to be constantly going back asking them to make little adjustments and charging me each time...
Thanks!
I have the brilliant Boardmans Team Carbon road bike with the SRAM Rival Groupset. It started off as a brilliant groupset, the gear change was clean and precise. I had only ever needed to adjust the setup/indexing once at the start and its been fine.
The more and more im using it, the more sloppy the gear change seems to be becoming. I've read somewhere on here that the cables they use are the cheapest possible to keep costs down. From what I can see is they are Shimano SIS cable.. I don't know anything about cables or if this is good/bad etc?
Do you reckon I need to get new cables fitted? Is there such thing as a good or bad cable???
I'm avoiding Halfords at all costs and trying to minimise my LBS useage for minor gear tweaks (due to lack of funds) if posible so your advise would be greatly appreciated. Obvously I'd leave changing the cables to the pros in a proper LBS, but I don't want to be constantly going back asking them to make little adjustments and charging me each time...
Thanks!