Jerry wrote:
>It's a bit hard for me to believe that this is a common occurance. Were you
>using aero cable routing? With traditional routing where the housings arch
>over the handlebars, it seems to me these loops of housing would provide
>more than adequate stress relief by deforming the curve of the arches long
>before a housing would rupture. Aero routing constrains the housing much
>more closely so I guess it could happen there. I must confess, this is the
>first time I've never heard of a brake cable housing failing it this way.
It happened on non-aero routing immediately above the ferrule
at the brake adjuster.
>Something else that doesn't make sense here is that the mail order places,
>including Nashbar and Bike Tools Etc. sell exactly the same housings for use
>with brakes and derailleurs. One presumes they must be compressionless to
>work with indexed shifters, and in some cases they are explicit stated as
>such. In a society crawling with product liability lawyers it seems
>impossible a company as large as Nashbar would risk selling these as brake
>cables if there was any evidence that they are prone to failure.
Checking the latest Nashbar catalog - I had to use the can too ;^), the only housing set they list 'NA-CHS' says to specify Brake or Derailer. Ferrules are listed as 4mm derailer / 5mm brake & cable ends are 1.2mm derailer / 1.8mm brake.
My Bike tools Etc. catalog lists derailer cables / housing separately from brake cables / housing.
Roy "what's indexed? what's shifting?" Drinkwater Lititz, PA