Finally had to breakdown & teach myself to do a cable-tension adjustment....

Peace,..

Watched a couple youtube videos a few months back but never applied the knowledge.

Recently, about 6 weeks ago swapped-out my 7-speed cassette for a 6-speed on my roadbike.

She originally came with a 6-speed but I had to adopt a 7-speed at the time because I wanted index-shifters and my local bike-shop only had 7-speed-compatible index shifters.

Long story short, I didn't like the 7-speed, ...came back to 6-speed and re-fitted my baby with friction-shifters. Maybe a week after the re-fit, I noticed I was having problems down-shifting into 1st-gear from 2nd-gear, but had no trouble upshifting from 5th to 6th.

Went to a couple local bike shops in Sac and was told that a basic cable-tension adjustment would cost me about 20 bucks.

Nope!

I dont mind dropping 20 bucks on a bike repair but not for a mere tension adjustment.

The stress finally got to me today and I pulled over in a McDonalds parking lot, pulled out my

pocket-knife, and did it myself in 2 minutes based off of what I saw in the youtube videos.

Greatest decision I ever made in my life.

Cant believe I stressed over something so easy to do.

But the lesson is, this lets me know that I need

to go to Sac Bike Kitchen and completely learn

how to service my roadbike on my own.

Its a great feeling....

Salute to all my fellow cyclist.

Roadie for Life!