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On my MTB I converted to single speed a while back, and then have recently (tried) to return to gears after actually trying to ride up my local hills. Before the gears worked fine - I'm lazy and don't have a bike stand, so I think I only had 9 of the 10 gears, but otherwise it was fine.
On trying to reinstall all the bits and pieces, I've encountered an issue. The cable got jammed in the shifter (I think I might have slipped it in having not clicked through to the end). After a bit of disassembly and a scary amount of swearing I got the cable out, however now the cable to the derailleur gets impossibly tight about halfway through the cassette and nothing I can do (in terms of adjusting various screws and limited on the transmission) seems to have any effect.
I assume something is wrong with my shifter... but what? Has anyone had an issue like this before?