CONTEST....Who Has The Longest Cable Housings?
05-13-20, 05:51 PM
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I want the housings to be long enough that my bars can touch the top tube. I also want to be able to remove the handlebars without removing the brake levers or calipers.
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Does this thread get merged with the "Show us your drainholes" thread?
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It's not the length of the cable but how you use it. 
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I just took myself out of contention with this one but could have been in the lead. Tandem with older style hydraulic hose guides for the disc brakes but running cable housing shims and one length of housing from brake lever to brake. I picked up cable stops that fit the hose guides to reduce it to 3 length of housing and take away at least half the friction. Now trying to talk the wife into letting me splurge on trp hy/rd calipers for improved stopping.
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NB In an earlier post I did mention that I run my cables 3-5 cm longer than when I was racing... and there's the reason why...
Now... back to the competition! For it to be fair and balanced, the size and type of the bike must be factored in. Tandem, eh. Recumbent, eh. Unridable, nailed to the wall ... Well that one was truly hysterical. But still, unrideable, so eh. But how to actually level the playing field? Pondering, I came upon this solution.
Defining excessive cable length (CL)e as the ratio expressed in the formula (CL)e = [CL- Dstem]* / D(Lf-Cf) **
*(where Dstem= distance required to get stem out of headtube)
**(where D(Lf-Cf) equals the shortest possible distance between brake lever ferrule and caliper ferrule, on a properly assembled and ridable bike.)
I think we now have a reasonable basis for judgement... a ratio of actual cable length to minimum requirements.
And the winner is:
I came across this in my eBay "suggestions"this evening. My first thought was put to the BB above the tube elbow, so it is supported and does not fall if weld cracks. 2nd thought, a contendah!
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