Now that my eldest is onto a 24 inch bike my youngest has his old vitus 20+ with 7 speed microshift gears. I hadn't noticed the firmness of the microshift gear before as, well I have grown up thumbs and it's been 40 years since I was his age. It brought it home when I moved my eldest onto a a deore shifter and xt m8000 mech (lowest gear is limited out due to short chain stays) and it feels much easier than the microshift
How can I improve the trigger feel?
Current thoughts are:
I've changed the cables which has made a slight improvement.
I have a few m8000 11 speed mechs and 10 speed mechs I could drop on if I could reduced the cassette and limited the mech if the cassettes were the lower level on individual cogs with no spiders as the hub is the narrower 7 speed size.
My 7 year old grandson was given a 2nd hand bike with very stiff gears. Fortunately I had plenty of nice quality inner and outer cables which made a big difference. I paid attention to the cable runs but I'll admit to not knowing whether to lubricate, and if so with what.
