I have used the DaVinci on two different travels bikes and on my Atlantis for handlebar swaps and they work great. If the swapped handlebars require different cable lengths I set each bar up with splitters on cables that are the right length to mate with the splitters on the cables that stay on the bike. This way no adjustment is needed, though the second bar requires another half set of splitters.
Adjusting the splitters once they have been tightened onto a cable is finicky because of cable bending and fray from the retaining screw of the splitter. I've done it for very small distances - a few mm - and always have been glad to make it work. Tim On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:16 PM, GeorgeS <chobur...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use the da Vinci splitters on a Surly Traveler's Check. The > splitters work fine. When you break down the bike you have to create > maximum slack in the cables. Once the bike is reconnected just screw > the splitters together and, so long as you've left the cables with the > same adjustment at brakes and deraillieurs, you're ready to ride. If > you're changing handlebars you will be usually changing the length of > the cables and thus additional adjustments will be necessary but that > would be the case if you were using cables w/o splitters. The > splitters just allow the cables to be broken and put back together. > They are not adjustment devices. > GeorgeS > > On Feb 9, 9:30 am, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Mitch Browne <mitch.bro...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I would like to try these. Can you point me to a URL for purchase? > > > Thanks. > > > > http://www.teamspirit.net/comp.html#split > > > > or > > ritchey ones are here: > http://www.ritcheylogic.com/dyn_prodlist.php?k=97992 > > > > I've not used the ritchey ones - only the davinci splitters. > > > > The davincis have a set you can buy specifically for swapping bars. > > > > I think I'm going to get a set on the next tandem we get so we can go > > from townie to travel mode w/o having to do a bunch of work. > > > > -sv > > -- > 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<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- 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=en.
