> We're missing the boat here.
> Right or wrong is too simplistic.
> Please ride the bikes you assemble or possess.
> Sheldon had it the closest.
> In front or back all works if it matches the frame size and and stem
> length.
> Here are the critical points to satisfy as I see them:
> 1) The cables have to be long enough to not pull the rear calipers
> sideways when the bar is at its' extreme bend sideways.
> 2) Both cables have to bow high enough so that when your hand goes
> underneath them on the bar, you don't catch your glove on the cable, twist
> the bar sideways and knock yourself on your ass or into the guy next to
> you and put the whole pack on the ground.
> 3) Front or back of bar is determined by stem length, so the cables don't
> bend down and tweak at the egress point on the lever and bind / wear
> cable, pull hard. The cable clip might hold this up.
> 4) By placing cables fore / aft of stem sometimes it's possible to support
> one with the other. So before you cut you hold and position and measure
> and bend and see how they perform as well as look.
> BUT: Safety first if it's a rider.
> Front or back is not the issue. Safety and mechanics are!
> Ted Ernst
> Palos Verdes Estates
> CA USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
> To: "ternst" <ternst1@cox.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 8:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Brake Cable routing
>
>
>>I like 'em...
>>
>>
>> On Dec 23, 2006, at 8:56 PM, ternst wrote:
>>
>>> I think they are a touch too long.
>>> Ted Ernst
>>> Palos Verdes Estates
>>> CA USA
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Schmidt"
>>> <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
>>> To: "CR RENDEZVOUS" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:49 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [CR]Brake Cable routing
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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)