Show us your.......newbie progress!

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Latest update on my mini odyssey since changing the cassette...

Wasn't able to shift much by the end of my last ride, and found I couldn't shift at all after trying to index the gears. Spotted fraying occurring on the rear gearing cable under the downtube so decided to have the cable out for a look...

Had the bike on a stand and dismantled the rear gearing cable and when the cable came out of the 105 shifter it looked like this...

Saw the cable had dismantled itself in and around the internals of the shifter so took it to the only place open...Halfords....

The guy essentially took it all apart and managed to get out the jammed cable and the stopper thingy at the end of what was left of the cable...

No wonder I was struggling to shift...

Thanks to @themosquitoking for his help today!

Its a very common cause of gear shifting problems. I have had it more times than I would care to mention, but I was covering a high mileage until recently.

 

[Nomadski]

Its a very common cause of gear shifting problems. I have had it more times than I would care to mention, but I was covering a high mileage until recently.

Didn't think it was common, thought my bike had just gone all terminator on the cable!

Quite glad it isn't just my bike being psycho though.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Its a very common cause of gear shifting problems. I have had it more times than I would care to mention, but I was covering a high mileage until recently.

Never had it had, used to have frayed ends when I didn't know better in my youth, but since being a bit more serious about, the only thing that has happened was a one broken stranded on the cable I have just replaced, but that was a galvanised one, its one i got shortly after I put the 105 shifters on as I put a kink in the original, and the guy (who runs his own repair shed) said it would be fine, it was it shifted fine ect... but detriated over the winter, the others two brake and front gear are fine, but then I do tend to replace them every 6 months or so.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Didn't think it was common, thought my bike had just gone all terminator on the cable!

Quite glad it isn't just my bike being psycho though.

It is definitely your bike being

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I am guess under the desk for the computer isn't the best place.

And this isn't even O.C. as much as it will go. Max Temp is actually 71C

 

[Renmurew]

My newbie progress continues.......I upped my distance this morning to 27 miles. I intended to aim for 25 but missed a road turning (no sign) and ended up with a 2 mile detour. 2 hrs 26 in total and I had a smile on my face the whole way . Maybe that had more to do with the small packet of jelly beans in my back pocket I was pacing myself with

Wendy

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Didn't think it was common, thought my bike had just gone all terminator on the cable!

Quite glad it isn't just my bike being psycho though.

Never had it had, used to have frayed ends when I didn't know better in my youth, but since being a bit more serious about, the only thing that has happened was a one broken stranded on the cable I have just replaced, but that was a galvanised one, its one i got shortly after I put the 105 shifters on as I put a kink in the original, and the guy (who runs his own repair shed) said it would be fine, it was it shifted fine ect... but detriated over the winter, the others two brake and front gear are fine, but then I do tend to replace them every 6 months or so.

Both my triban 3 (multiple times both shifters) and my Fuji (only the once on the rest) have broken cables in that manner. The what have you fixed today thread will have the photos somewhere as well one of the my ride today threads when my shifter broken the cable on the wrong side of the local hills leaving me with a useless combination of gears for riding steep incline! My husband's T3 has also done the same or started to until I stopped him cycling the bike till it was replaced (cable not bike)...

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@SatNavSaysStraightOn all I can say it can only be I change them that often.

 

[Nomadski]

I am guess under the desk for the computer isn't the best place.
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And this isn't even O.C. as much as it will go. Max Temp is actually 71C

blimey, you should look at your cooler/thermal paste/case airflow there. my i7 sits between 30 degrees and 55 max under load. neverhad a cpu run that hot, most of my gpus dont go far over that!

 

[Nigelnaturist]

blimey, you should look at your cooler/thermal paste/case airflow there. my i7 sits between 30 degrees and 55 max under load. neverhad a cpu run that hot, most of my gpus dont go far over that!

Its where its sat, its getting moved today, its never that high.
Bare in mind it has 6 hard drives and 2 graphics cards so runs warmer than many systems anyway.

Edit right lets see how that goes.

 

[nobbyp]

Big fat zero this week on the bike but a fab week on a pair of planks in the Alps where I learnt 2 things

1 cycling is great for ski fitness - found I could stay in really decent tuck on long schusses (whatever the plural of schuss is??) for as long as I wanted rather than have quads burning after 30 seconds

2 - we don't really have hills in UK - just little bumps - viewed the climb up to Les Arcs a tad differently this year thinking what it would be like on a bike - hard was the conclusion but god how much do I want to find out!!!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

15 miles done, 2 hours taken, 1 strava challenge badge awarded
https://www.strava.com/activities/280137466

 

[Tankengine]

Out in the sunshine loads of riders around. Went and had a go at kidds hill and cob lane. Kidds hill great views at the top but another one that's fairly doable and a sit in the saddle. Cob lane....steep and short but got up in one go.

Hunt for hills so far stands at
Beacon
Toys south and north
Box hill
Kidds hill
Ide hill from the north
Cob lane
Groombridge hill

Any other s.e. suggestions? I'm thinking leith and white down...

 

[Stonechat]

Did a goodish ride down to Godalming and looped round taking in Combe Lane on the way back
did not push it too hard
Wore leg warmers which came off half way round
52.84 miles at 15.3 mph
2208 feet climbed

https://www.strava.com/activities/280249538

 

[Stonechat]

Out in the sunshine loads of riders around. Went and had a go at kidds hill and cob lane. Kidds hill great views at the top but another one that's fairly doable and a sit in the saddle. Cob lane....steep and short but got up in one go.

Hunt for hills so far stands at
Beacon
Toys south and north
Box hill
Kidds hill
Ide hill from the north
Cob lane
Groombridge hill

Any other s.e. suggestions? I'm thinking leith and white down...

Also Coldharbour Lane
Also you can do Newlands Corner, followed by Combe Lane, then of you turn right at the bottom also Crocknorth

Go down to the south coast and do Ditchling Beacon