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The return spring on my X9 10 speed rear shifter lever has just died again.
The work around is to pull it back with my thumb, but this is rubbish and annoying!
Here's the 'funny' bit.
[b]The shifter is only 6 months old, and this is the 2nd X9 shifter I have owned to have exactly this problem after again, only 6 months![/b]
(The shifter was sourced from aborad, the seller cannot be arsed to deal with the warranty claim and SRAM UK will not deal with me direct).
Are there other SRAM X9 owners about with the same problem (10 speed)?
Does this affect X0?
Has anybody fixed the problem?
I recently had this with a RH X9 shifter myself, but it had passed it's fourth birthday so I wasn't unduly upset.
I managed to get hold of some stiff wire and bodged a new return spring using a vice and some fine pliers. It's now better than new.
Fabricating a new spring is the easy part though, the rebuilding process for an SRAM shifter is a masive PITA. You have to put it back together without the clockspring pinging out of place or displacing the ratchet. Took me three hours of fiddling before I cracked it.
There are some youtube vids on SRAM shifter rebuild it looks prety maddening, speshially as it eats into hard won ride time
This has always been a problem with sram from x9 down xo and xx never a problem, sram uk have no obligation to deal with you problem it wasn't supplied by them, same as buying it from chain reaction and sending it back to wiggle for warranty.
I've got some 10 speed SLX shifters for sale 😆
Shimano is the best solution for your problem hear ~ really!