And another thing--for practical,
mechanical/maintainance factor, a standardized 50 cent
nylon bracket sure beats a brazed-on rust trap.
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA
> On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:28:33 -0700 Brandon Ives
> <monkeylad@mac.com>
> writes:
> > 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. I would think many of the
> custom builders
> > would have kept it as a feature that was superior
> to the way they do
> > production bikes. So can anyone clarify the
> history of under the BB
> > routing and give me any good reasons to do it that
> way beyond it's
> > easier?
>
> Cheaper maybe, but back when everyone had above the
> BB cable guides,
> under the BB was different, looked cleaner and cool?
> That custom feature
> on a production bike. Mr production does not want to
> look like he is
> making an old bike, run those cables under the BB
> like everyone else.
> Innovation!
>
> Kind of like the component makers making any change
> look like a tech
> innovation, the production frames have to do the
> same things? 60s and 70s
> frames with no braze-ons because "Hey that little
> bit heat on a tube
> weakens it." Then the custom bikes have all the
> braze-ons because "A good
> custom builder can control the heat applied to the
> tube." Then all these
> braze-ons start showing up on production bikes,
> levers, one WB mount,
> then two. More innovation, product differentiation.
> Makes that bike look
> slick. Get rid of that above the BB cable routed
> frame, get the new neat
> under the BB cable routed frame (Buy me, buy me!).
>
> Did anyone notice this back in the early 80s? I sure
> did. "Hey that Masi
> is cool, with that old cable routing, but my new
> Trek has the innovative
> sleek under the BB cable routing. (Subtle implied
> marketing message: Has
> to make the bike faster.)"
>
>
> Steven M. Johnson, Chesapeake, VA
>
>
>
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