Marcus Helman wrote:
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> John Siemsen wrote in about routing bar-end shifter cables. He mentioned
> some photos of Mario Confente in the Bicycle Trader. The photos and
> articles are in Februay-March 1999, and April 1999.
>
> The Bicycle Trader is at http://www.bicycletrader.com/
>
> My question relates to length of brake cale housing. Most published
> directions say to have the housing long enough to come straight out of the
> levers, yet Mario's bike has much shorter cables. I have seen beautiful
> vintage bikes with shorter cables, and equally beautiful ones where the
> cables are very high and loopy.
>
> What is the optimum length?
Here's the articles:
http://www.bicycletrader.com/
Here's the photos:
http://www.bicycletrader.com/
On a race bike the goal is not to have any excess anything. I looked at the photos and it looks to me like the bikes don't have a kink or dogleg in the brake housing where it exits the brake lever. And the housing is short! What's not to like? Bellissima!
High and loopy? Never a good look!
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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