The front shifter on my road bike has started jamming and i’m looking for some inspired solutions.

It works fine without a cable but once it is cabled up it jams and won’t down shift (its just had new inners and outers fitted so its not old/manky cables)

I thought Brad at The Bike Chain had fixed it *my hero* – he noticed the mechanism was twisting and tightened the wee screw at the back of the shifter that holds all the internals in place. This worked but, when my bf was re-fitting it last night and setting up the gears, it went again. The screw has worked loose again. I take it we can’t remove the screw to loctite it? Any other ideas?

I’ve a replacement on its way but I’d quite like to send it back if I don’t have to use it. The shifter is only 6 months old so I will hopefully be able to get it replaced under warranty but this won’t help for racing this weekend! 😥

wasn’t there a recall on these?

This is a common fault on these. You should get another under warranty.

Not gonna help you for the weekend though.

I’d try and borrow another temporarily or you should be able to fit any Shimano 2/3 spd front shifter and bodge it to work.

wasn’t there a recall on these?

not that I can find…

You are welcome to borrow one from us as mentioned on FB.

As long as you replace it with another new one from Rose or CRC it’s cool.

OOps

Recall for what reason?

Royal Mail hasn’t shown up with the replacement as promised either 😡

Edit, thanks TBC, appreciate it lots. Will be in touch and am popping in tomorrow anyway.

Recall for what reason?

They keep breaking…..

Dunno if there’s a recall or not. Just know I’ve had a few bikes in with failed LH Ultegra Shifters that have had to be replaced.

Either under warranty if less than 12mths old or off ebay/web.

I <3 thebikechain
that^ is supposed to be a heart btw 🙂

that^ looks more like some testicles than a heart IMO.

looks more like some testicles than a heart IMO

no such thing as dirty pictures, only dirty minds…

I don’t mind either way. *pancakes*