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Antti Salonen
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I have a cyclocross bike with a pretty poor cable routing for the front
brake cable. There are no spacers under the stem, so the cable stop is
very close to the stem. I ordered a noodled cable stop with a 45-degree
bend from Harris Cyclery which makes the routing possible, but there's
quite a bit of friction.
Here's a photograph, which doesn't show the problem area very well.
I could take take a better one in the evening.
http://www.helsinki.fi/~aksalone/crosscheck.jpg
I'm guessing that the routing with least friction would be to have a
regular cable stop right under the stem and drill holes in the stem.
This would avoid the tight 45-degree bend in the cable stop and also
allow a wider-radius bend from under the bartape into the cable stop.
The bike has a Ritchey WCS stem, 90 mm long and about 130 grams. I've
heard of this being done on cross bikes, so it is a safety issue?
-as
brake cable. There are no spacers under the stem, so the cable stop is
very close to the stem. I ordered a noodled cable stop with a 45-degree
bend from Harris Cyclery which makes the routing possible, but there's
quite a bit of friction.
Here's a photograph, which doesn't show the problem area very well.
I could take take a better one in the evening.
http://www.helsinki.fi/~aksalone/crosscheck.jpg
I'm guessing that the routing with least friction would be to have a
regular cable stop right under the stem and drill holes in the stem.
This would avoid the tight 45-degree bend in the cable stop and also
allow a wider-radius bend from under the bartape into the cable stop.
The bike has a Ritchey WCS stem, 90 mm long and about 130 grams. I've
heard of this being done on cross bikes, so it is a safety issue?
-as