It's getting close to when I need to pack the bike up, but I had some gear issues last time out and I wanted to see if my adjustments helped. A short ride yesterday and I found out that it was still slipping when in 3rd or 4th gear. I was starting to panic a bit. Luckily I live down the road from L.L. Bean. I big thank you to Ryan at their bike shop in Freeport who took my call, diagnosed it over the phone and let me come in and wait while he fixed the problem...at 8pm on Wednesday! What a place.
The bike has bar-end Shimano index shifters and a Shimano 105 rear derailleur. Turns out the derailleur hanger was bent. I suppose I would have eventually kicked the thing after a couple days of bad shifting and maybe fixed it, but Randy was calm and had a tool/guide to align it. Of course I haven't actually ridden the bike since the repair.
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