I have decided to leave the marina and drop the ⚓️ just outside of it. This will be the start of a 7 night anchoring schedule leading to Monte Real Club de Yates in Baiona, my last stop in Galicia ☹️. Before heading to Portugal, there is some more hiking and biking planned in lovely Galicia. Fair winds…
The wire of the left hand shift levers broke yesterday to switch the front derailleur on the crankset. From then onward I was only able to shift chain on the rear derailleur. Luckily the chain was fixed on the lower chainring with 34 teeth. In other words, I could go slow and uphill on low gear but not high speed on higher gears.
My research on Shimano Ultegra R8020 group set – this is the model we have installed on the bike – concluded, it is somewhat practise to replace the wire after around 10’000km as a matter of potentially being a design glitch and not common. After checking my statistics, I have done around 17’000km in four years since I have the bike.
A bit annoying I went to the nearest bike shop today and got the wire replaced for less than 12 Euro! Excellent customer service at ADNbikes in Noia.
It then turned into a sugar ride on the way back absorbing more of this beautiful part of Galicia’s landscape.
Unfortunately the reasons and arguments to buy a new bike with wireless gear shift disappeared again.
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