"Tom Nakashima" <
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> Do right angle barrel adjusters exist? I would use them for making the sharp cable bend going into
> the headset cable housing hanger for cantilever front brakes on a road/touring bike. -tom
i always have problems with this bend. im sure youve seen the following options before, but in case
someone hasnt-
first, you can buy (they come with some headset cable hangers) a curved tube which takes the place
of the barrel adjuster in the cable hanger. this allows the housing to make a sharp bend without
actually kinking the housing. unfoprtunately, you lose the barrel adjusting properties. I get
around this with a fourth hand tool and an allen key, but those arent things you lug around the
road with you.
second, i found (and have seen elsewhere, its fairly intuitive) that if your cable hanger is very
close to the stem and would result in a sharp bend, you can often ease the angle the housign has to
make by routing the housing *over* the stem and down to the cable hanger on the other side. i
discovered this when i put a cross lever on my front brake a year back. in that case it was pretty
much imposible to do otherwise. but it has also mitigated the housing angle on a normal bar setup.
this latter solution looks much nicer than the former. it would seem that the two could be
combined. a curved tube could easily be made to accept a barrel adjuster. maybe its the next
problem solvers product?
just a coupla' thoguhts.
cheers, anthony
