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Had a customer bring in a bike with a beautifully shrink wrapped and then zip tied outer gear cable, honestly took me a few minutes to notice what they had done. Shifted perfectly, but as soon as you snipped the two zip ties it started bursting out
But yes, they had literally replaced the inner, within a fully split open outer, after the fact, and patched it with shrink wrap and zip ties. Guess they didn't have any outer!
BrickMan
@MTB-Idle
Took me a while 0n Sunday to realise why my rear mech wasn't shifting correctly until I spotted that the issue was literally under my nose.
Never had this happen before in 25 years of riding. Fortunately my eldest boy was carrying some zip ties and we bodged this fix which got me through the next 3 hours riding until the cable outer split further and we ran out of zip ties. Fortunately I was at the top of the hill so rode back to the car parked at the bottom.
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