Spent 4 hours fixing a shifting issue that turned out to be a cable housing cut 2mm too short

I was chasing a ghost in my rear derailleur for way too long. Replaced the cable, adjusted the limit screws, even took the whole thing apart and greased the pivots. Then I finally measured the housing and realized I had trimmed it just a hair short when I replaced it last month. That tiny bit of friction was enough to mess up every shift. Has anyone else spent an afternoon on something that dumb before?

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casey_torres6017d ago

Tbh that's basically life finding the tiny thing that breaks everything else.

abby_singh4d ago

It's funny you say that because I used to push back hard on that idea. I was the person who'd insist that big, grand plans were the only way anything actually got done. But then I started noticing how often I'd get tripped up by something tiny, like forgetting to save a file or telling someone the wrong time for a meeting. That one small thing would just unravel everything else I had lined up. So yeah, you're totally right - it's the little stuff that sneaks up and messes with everything.