Hmmm. You could go the super old-school direction, and run a continuous housing from the chainstay straight up the downtube. Attach with whatever you have on hand - cable clamps if you have ones that will fit, hose clamps, zip ties, duct tape. After all, well into the 1950s it was common to have a shifter mounted to the drive side of the top tube, and run a continuous housing to the hub gear/chainstay-mounted derailleur.
I don't know how inconspicuous this would be, but any port in a storm, yes? Besides, uglification is a theft preventative. A short bit of cable housing duct-taped to the shell certainly sounds like the easiest option. Peter Adler who made an emergency trip an hour ago to root around greasy bins in a shop, only to find that Falcon stem-shift levers don't mount on Lambert downtube mounts - *dang* - in the bike Mecca of Berkeley, CA/USA On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 6:25:07 PM UTC-7, bertin753 wrote: > > Quick is more important than cheap or easy, but those will probably follow > in train. With wind gusts forecast to be as high as 40 mph tomorrow, I want > to use the S3X hub on the gofast Riv, and I'd like to mount the shifter on > the dt and run the cable under the bb shell back to the pull chain. I've > got the clamp on shifter mount ready. > > The gofast has no plastic or brazed-in cable guide down there, and I have > none to glue or otherwise secure there, either. > > Any solution will have to be available from the usual household detritus > or the usual accumulted bike (non-derailleur) bits, and allow me to use the > bike with no more than an hour's work. > > Permanent or semi-permanent is fine, as long as it is very inconspicuous. > > I have thought of using a short bit of cable housing taped to the > underside of the bb shell; does anyone have a more elegant solution? > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
