[CR]Top tube cable guides...Cuevas not the only one fabricating his own

From: Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@sbcglobal.net>
To: <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:37:50 -0400
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Subject: [CR]Top tube cable guides...Cuevas not the only one fabricating his own

Fred, Chris Kvale made his own top tube cable guides in the '70s , too. He used stainless automotive tubing (brake lines?) and cut the ends on an angle so that the bottom where brazed onto the top tube was about 1/4" longer that the top portion...this gave a very pleasing look. However, they were too small a diameter for modern cable housings. He is now putting larger ones on bikes that come in for re-paints.
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi USA