"How do you lengthen cable and housing. That's kind of a joke, because I cut it too short, but if you have a little extra cable CAN you throw in a little section of housing? Or will it buckle? "
Edwin I assume you are talking about proper shift cable housing, the stuff with parallel wires running longitudinally. You can NOT but two pieces of that housing end to end. It absolutely will buckle. However, there is a double-ended ferrule that is made specifically to splice two bits of shift housing together, end-to-end. Double-Ended Ferrule <http://www.universalcycles.com/shopping/product_details.php?id=44950&category=7> On my Atlantis Build I was using RED housing, in a prepackaged set. I wanted to run the shift housing all the way under the tape, and sure enough the pre-cut length of RED shift housing wasn't long enough. I searched through my small-parts bin and couldn't find a double ended ferrule, so I switched out to the BLACK shift housing that I have in bulk. I briefly considered making my own double sided ferrule: Put a normal ferrule on both ends and then cut a length of metal tubing that has just the right I.D. to hold those two ferrules in-line with one another. I was going to hide that splice under the bar tape. I decided that would be a little too janky of a mechanical downgrade in exchange for a small additional run of RED housing, and decided against it. On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 4:41:47 AM UTC-8, Edwin W wrote: > > > 'm going to swap out Albas for noodles. Thanks for the help so far and for > these questions. > I've never been a racer, always a rider and have loved my Albas for the > last two years on my sam， but wanted a new bike and thought this was a > cheaper way to go. Intrigued by more positions, I'm going to try it out. > After 20 miles I'm thinking I'll be back on Albas in a year, so I won't > throw them away! > > This cockpit change thing is fiddly. Some things: > Where do you put the rear derailer cable in relation to marks rack and > Wald basket? Under? Behind? > > Where do you run the brake cables in relation to the bars? If you took a > cross section looking from the stem, would the cable be at 9, 730, or 6 > o'clock for the right side? (Got that image?) > > How do you lengthen cable and housing. That's kind of a joke, because I > cut it too short, but if you have a little extra cable CAN you throw in a > little section of housing? Or will it buckle? > > I am going to ride a hundred miles or at least fifty before I wrap them! > Learning by experimenting, > > Edwin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
