Forum menu
Shimano double/trip...
 

[Closed] Shimano double/triple chainset disappointment

Posts: 13643
Free Member
Topic starter
 
[#5768237]

Just bought a (second hand) 105 triple chainset as my existing compact double wasn't for me. However, and I should have checked this before, the Sora STI will only index for a double, despite having space on the gear indicator for three chainrings. There's nothing I can do about this, is there?


 
Posted : 12/12/2013 3:53 pm
Posts: 24852
Free Member
 

is it all cabled up still - sure it's not the stops on the mech itself preventing the shifter from operating. or a double specific mech? If you undo the cable from the mech can you get three indices then?


 
Posted : 12/12/2013 3:55 pm
Posts: 13643
Free Member
Topic starter
 

I'll give it another go, I loosened up the stop screws and gave the STI a good yank but there wasn't anything there clicking or holding it in place at the spot where the third index should be...


 
Posted : 12/12/2013 4:01 pm
Posts: 6332
Free Member
 

triples eh ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 12/12/2013 4:12 pm
Posts: 13643
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Haha! I was waiting for that^ ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 12/12/2013 4:14 pm
Posts: 6332
Free Member
 

just edited it as I though you might get shirty about it....


 
Posted : 12/12/2013 4:15 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Have you disconnected the cable from the mech, then checked the shifter has 3 stops yet?

If the shifter was in the "middle" and you set the travel it would look like you only had a double.


 
Posted : 12/12/2013 6:45 pm
Posts: 13643
Free Member
Topic starter
 

It looks like I've got a double. I'm not a shirty kind of guy! ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 12/12/2013 9:42 pm
Posts: 6332
Free Member
 

fate in telling you to go with two rings, better shifting, less hassle, less weight, and become a man my son.


 
Posted : 13/12/2013 8:33 am