I have a eight year old Scott with LX componants, I use it mostly for road rides and dragging the baby buggy.

The shifters seem to be dying, they don’t always engage when pulling both front and rear mechs. I normally have the bottom gears, but the top ones ( top on the front chainring etc ) aren’t there any more, when shifting to these gears the shifter is very soft and hasn’t any friction which I normally get.

Are they dead ? Can they be repaired ?

Cheers

This is common and easily solved, you’ll be pleased to hear.

It happens cos a little swingy bit of metal that’s sprung into place by a springy bit of metal to engage against a toothy bit of metal stops wanting to swing. This is caused by the original grease going gunky and filling with extra gunk and dust and crud.

How to solve it: spray GT85 into your shifter and work through all the gears. Repeat. Repeat again. Works every time.

There is a case for opening up the shifter, properly cleaning it and putting in fresh grease on the moving parts, but GT85 once in a while has worked fine for me for years.

Your a star sir ! Just had a fiddle, opened the shifter up, did a squirt, a clean and squished some grease in and they work wonderfully.

Many thanks !

c

Woo hoo, a success story! You’re very welcome, Chris, glad to be of service and glad it worked.

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