I saw on a. myerson's site about how he ran full housing on his shifting cables. Though I'm not nutty enough to drill open the cable stops on my new carbon Van Dessels like him, I looked up the idea with my dad. Tuesday we finally got around to it or I did, and he pulled out some Nokon housing and 'fittings' (aka the little silver cups you can adjust length with while protecting the cable.) I guess these were 'the thing' about ten seasons ago. I noticed some quick pro's: lighter, NO openings, easy to adjust length; and con's: time to install, slight increase in friction, SUPER expensive. But since these were throw-aways in that back room of the LBS (MSRP - $56 for one rear derailleur cable marked down to free for past nine years), and my dad is a wrench, this was perfect.
The whole process took about 1.5 hours of distracted working. We glued in my cut down piece of down tube holding rear derailleur cable and perfect! Cable is already stretched a bit but is as smooth without cable stop openings with 100% less chance mud can go into my housing and affect the cable/shifting. This should also work better cleaning bike without anything to shoot into my housing. Now, the only thing that can slow down my shifting is sticky mud like last weekend. Pictured is Ehrlinger's rear derailleur after saturday's mud festival. Got two weeks to get this thing perfect.
*Posted from my new 10.2" hp notebook. Wow I am pro.
The whole process took about 1.5 hours of distracted working. We glued in my cut down piece of down tube holding rear derailleur cable and perfect! Cable is already stretched a bit but is as smooth without cable stop openings with 100% less chance mud can go into my housing and affect the cable/shifting. This should also work better cleaning bike without anything to shoot into my housing. Now, the only thing that can slow down my shifting is sticky mud like last weekend. Pictured is Ehrlinger's rear derailleur after saturday's mud festival. Got two weeks to get this thing perfect.
*Posted from my new 10.2" hp notebook. Wow I am pro.
1 comments:
Nice! I think I'm going to go with the Meyerson trick also... though I'll just use the cheaper cable housing, and some zip ties. I'm not ready for the drilling, even if I don't have a "new" Van Dessel.
That brick making material took forever to get out the my rear der also...
Nice work this weekend, racing and with the Nikon!
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