Let me thank everyone for all the replies and wish you all a very
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
On Dec 23, 2006, at 8:49 PM, Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> John Barron wrote:
>
>> Hal-
>> Thanks for asking this question. I've never had the nerve to ask
>> this
>> question, but I deal with this issue every time I put a bike
>> together. I
>> started racing in 1988, (at age 28) and everything was aero then,
>> so I
>> simply don't know what racers of-the-era did.
>>
>> John Barron
>> Minneapolis
>
>
> When you check photos of pros for a number of years you can see
> there is a general consensus of how a racing bike should be set up
> as far as the brake cables are concerned (height of arch above the
> bars, which side of stem each cable goes on, which one is on top of
> the other when they cross the stem).
>
> This would be that set up:
> <http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/images/palmares/
> mercxk_peeters.jpg>
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, CA USA
> http://www.velo-retro.com (reprints, t-shirts & timelines)
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