Thursday, July 23, 2009

Mountainbike cable routing or "A spaghetti western"

Tonight I did some work on my '96 Giant Boulder Alu lite. A low budget project but a lot of fun. Last week I struggled a lot with the external cables in lack of a proper cable cutter. I ended with the Dremel tool and that worked out pretty well. Anyway, I'm not content with the routing from the top tube to the shifters. See for yourself:

I ended up looping the rear derailleur cable, which is the middle one on the top tube, via the left side of the headset. This gave a better flow than straight along the right side of the headset and with a sharp turn right into the 9 speed Deore M510 shifter.

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