If your housing is long enough, you don't need to wait. Just pull your stem, cross the cable under it, then reinsert. This assumes you have split cable stops of course... Steve Frederick, East Lansing, MI
-----Original Message----- From: David Faller [mailto:dfal...@charter.net] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:46 AM To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [RBW] Re: Protecting the top tube from brake cable I think I like this method! May give it a try next time I get new cables... ----- Original Message ----- From: benzzoy <mailto:benz...@yahoo.com> To: RBW Owners Bunch <mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:58 PM Subject: [RBW] Re: Protecting the top tube from brake cable On Nov 18, 6:36 am, Seth Vidal < skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > How does everyone protect their head tube paint from being abused by > their shifter cable housing? I've found some amount of cable rub > happening and I'm not sure how to protect the head tube better. You can protect your headtube paint by routing the cable housing in such a way as to avoid rubbing the headtube. :) For me, the rubbing only occurs with the derailleur housings. To address that, I route the right housing (for the rear derailleur cable) around to the left cable stop, and the left housing to the right cable stop. This creates a larger arc that does not rub the headtube. Then I cross the cable on the downtube, such that when they reach the BB shell, they're back to their right side=rear cable, left side=front cable positions. The crossing between the cable stop and the BB shell does not impact shifting and the gentler arc probably helps mitigate housing friction to boot. See: http://tinyurl.com/yaqgdse and http://tinyurl.com/5c9a5 -B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=.
