Peter -
I thought you and other list-members might find one of the bar-end shifter arrangements I discovered interesting. I had a De Rosa that was built specifically for bar-ends (with housing stops instead of shifter bosses on the down tube). The Cinelli bars that came on that bike -were drilled and filed for internal routing, with the housing exiting the bars at the stem. Looks like a fair amount of work went into the arrangement, which can be seen here:
http://www.wooljersey.com/
I still have the bar. Unfortunately it is 38cm, which is a bit narrow for me, so I've haven't yet set-up a bike using it, so can't comment on how it works.
Wayne Bingham
Lovettsville VA USA
> 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