Hi,
I'm using the same style cable routing on my (KOF) Riv:
http://www.wooljersey.com/
(click on the image to see the bigger photo). The rear is 9 speed indexed, and it works ok. The only "problem" (not a big one) is that for the rear, only a tandem shifter cable would do, regular is too short.
Thursday, October 1, 2009, 4:25:12 PM, Joel Niemi wrote:
> Kirke keyboarded:
> "In regards to the Masi/Gazelle bike, I found it interesting that
> the bar end shifter cables are run all the way up through
> the handlebar tape and exit at the stem. I personally find this
> method more aesthetically appealling, but I didnt know this
> would have been a practice back in the 1960s-70s. I was always
> under the impression it was really only possible with modern
> lined and lubricated cable housing. It was suggested to me that
> with old housing, that shifting would have suffered greatly.
> Any thoughts?"
>
> Been there, did that, have paint rubbed off of both sides of the
> headtube to prove it, back in 1972. Good old stainless
> "wound" style housing, too, so some of the chafing on the paint
> shows up as individual lines from the metal housing.
> Wrapping with some handlebar tape sort of helped. And, yes, it
> looked a whole lot nicer to me than to have the housings
> flopping around between the drops. Made it so you could put your
> hands anywhere on the bars without catching a thumb on the
> cable housing.
>
> No real loss in shifting, with friction only (Suntour ratcheting
> barcons) operating a Campagnolo NR derailleur over 5 rear
> cogs. Well, none that I noticed, or even thought about -- that's
> just the way it was, and I could shift to the highest gear
> on any descent without having to take my hand off the bar to run a downtube shifter.
>
> Joel Niemi / Snohomish, Washington
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Cheers,
Dmitry Yaitskov,
Toronto, Canada.