I've run both ways in the last few months: Noodles - under the tape right up to the stem. 10-speed indexed barcons. Zero issues, shifts like an absolute dream. Front friction shifter is also great.
Now I have Albatross bars, which means the cabling is flying free. I don't notice any difference at all. The biggest source of friction in my experience is poor quality housing and cables, as well as dirt getting into the housing. Teflon-coated cables, good quality housing, and some kind of weather sealing ferrules = happy shifting. On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 10:30:18 PM UTC-5, dougP wrote: > > I've routed the cables where they exit just at the end of flat part, out > around the brake hoods, and all the way up near the stem. It never seemed > to matter to shifting. The various locations were to deal with different > front bags. > > dougP > > On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 4:05:02 PM UTC-7, David wrote: >> >> I'm curious what the group's opinion or preference is (and why) regarding >> barcon cable routing. AFAIK, on the one hand, you can do it the RBW (or, >> traditional) way where the cables shoot out the front of the drops after >> just a few rounds of tape concealing the cables, or you can keep the cables >> completely hidden until they route down at the stem/headtube. I understand >> that there's a bit more friction if you go the hidden route, but, other >> than that, is there a real big difference beyond aesthetics? I appreciate >> your thoughts. >> >> -- 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.
