I tried both ways on my old Crescent that I (incorrectly) painted and turned into a touring bike. I used "modern" Campy-8 indexed bar-ends and brake levers with aero brake cable routing. After having the cable for the shifters run all the way to the tape for awhile, I switched them to the out-of-the-drops location and didn't notice any difference in shifting. I like them the latter way and have left them there. I too ride in the drops most of the time on this bike (hence the tall stem), and like to hook a finger around the cable.
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Dave Whitney Poland, Maine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:17:24 -0500 From: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net> To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR]bar-end shifter cable routing Message-ID: <004601c820f5$1a1e7860$6602a8c0@peter5ca78cb10> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Message: 2
It wasn't my idea and I hate the things, but my '67 Holdsworth Super Mistral has to have bar-end shifters due to braze ons. Looking at pix of the era, the racing custom seemed to have been to carry the cabling up the bars to the end of the bar tape rather than just up to the brake levers which seems to be the prevailing practice.
Several postings in the archives suggested that the "racing" arrangement is not as satisfactory given the extra friction caused by the extra cable length, bends etc. Have any of you out there recently used this arrangement with better results? I ride "on the drops" all the time and
this routing seems preferable as it gets the cabling out of the way.
Peter Kohler Washington DC USA
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