Is this what I think it is....?

[Monsieur Remings]

I'm looking for the Allen key (?) that clamps the shifters to the handlebars. Following on from a fall I've been trying to locate it and I think it may be this in the photo shown, where I was shown a similar SRAM Apex (mine is a Rival)?

If it is then why won't it do up? It says In, pointing clockwise but it won't tighten completely, preferring instead to keep turning.

Knowing the luck I've had of recent, it's probably something else I've interfered with, right?

 

[fossyant]

That will be the reach adjustment - it's way too small for the clamp. Check the sides or better still google Sram Rival Shifters.

I'll google now for you.

 

[fossyant]

Here

Pull back from bar end of cover, you will see a big allen bolt - thats it
http://www.bikeradar.com/gallery/article/workshop-how-to-set-up-sram-force-25902/3

 

[biggs682]

tucked under the hoods normally on the outside or is it inside cant remember

 

[Scoosh]

Yeah - as fossy says, that is one of the reach adjustments. (the "In" refers to moving the reach closer to the bars, IIRC)

The clamp is a much bigger one. Peel the cover back a bit further and it should appear.

 

[Monsieur Remings]

THanks, looks like I've mucked up something else then, have to turn the one I thought it was back a few revolutions as well.

 

[Scoosh]

Here you are.
http://cdn.sram.com/cdn/farfuture/U...ted Brake Shifter 95-7015-007-000 Rev C_2.pdf

Magnify it a bit and the English version is at the top .

Sections 1 and 6/7 refer.

 

[fossyant]

Dont worry - you will see the lever tip move in and out from the bars - thats the reach adjust.

TBH I was well impressed with the SRAM stuff setting up GB155's bike last year - nice kit.

Remember, big bolts hold things that need to be held tight, little bolts for adjusting !

 

[Scoosh]

Dont worry - you will see the lever tip move in and out from the bars - thats the reach adjust.

TBH I was well impressed with the SRAM stuff setting up GB155's bike last year - nice kit.
I my Rival stuff !

Remember, big bolts hold things that need to be held tight, little bolts for adjusting !

Hmmm ... <thinks : neck, head .... >

 

[Monsieur Remings]

Thanks folks, found it and sorted it. Yes, can see the lever tips moving a bit. Oh well, you learn something new everyday and as soon as I get my head around this bike, it'll be time to buy another one.

Big thanks to Fossy for all his help this evening, not for the first time.

 

[fossyant]

Whoop. And i don't have any road STI / ERGO systems. Only first gen MTB STI. Get In.

PS It's all the same anyway. SIS downtube shifters are the best....