Originally Posted by
bikemig
I thought I was going to finish up my 1992 Trek 950 but ran into a problem as the pulley needed to make the FD work (cables run on the top tube and this is a bottom pull FD) has gone MIA,
I'll need to make a command decision on whether to continue with a bottom pull FD or go with a top pull and mount a cable stop on the seatube. I'm leaning towards getting a cheap Altus FD with dual pull and a cable stop since that will give me cleaner cable routing than sticking with a bottom pull FD and a pulley.
From what I recall, Trek Singletracks didn't use a pulley; they used a bottom bracket mounted bolt (pic2) and the housing pulled the cable. The housing stop goes in the cable fixing bolt and the cable clamps and ends on the bottom bracket bolt. Or at least, that's what I remember.