A current carbon bike has above-bracket cable guides
and they often need teflon tubing around the cables to
get the nasty last bit of drag out of the shifting.
It's the brand that starts with a K and ends with an
L.
Classic content--first under-bb cables I saw were on a
Paris Sport @ 1974 or a Sabliere @ 1972.
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA
> Brandon Ives wrote:
> >
> > Something that I've always wondered about is when
> and why folks
> > switched to under the BB cable routing. I've
> always preferred the
> > above routing since the cables are shorter and put
> them more out of
> > the way of road grime, plus it gives the housing
> less bend and a
> > better line to the RD. I can understand for
> production that drilling
> > and tapping a 5m hole is much easier than
> soldering on two hard to
> > jig tiny cable guides.
>
> Because they are inferior Man Monkey! I have
> cleaned up enough 70s pro
> bikes to see that there is _never_ good paint
> coverage between the
> cable guides and the seat and down tubes (meaning I
> always find rust
> behind 'em), the paint is always chipped off the
> edges of the guides
> (more rust), and there is always crud stuck in the
> nooks and crannies
> that has been there since the first time the bike
> was ridden in the rain
> (holds moisture for the better to create rust)!
> Plus it looks
> cluttered.
>
> If they were so hot, you'd see them back on the bike
> by now. It's all evolution...
>
> Chuck "rust never sleeps" Schmidt
> SoPas, SoCal
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