"DATAKOLL MARINE RESEARCH" <
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With motorcycles; it was mostly a battle to stop water accumulating in any
dips in the cable run.
Water in the cable silently rusts it away, and in winter can freeze the
cable solid.
The No1 objective was to fill any voids and deny them to accumulated water.
Increasingly; cables were supplied as sleeved inner types - oil or grease
became more important as a corrosion inhibitor than lubricant.
Just bought some more PTFE coated cables - oil is pretty much irrelevant for
lubrication, its all about stopping rust on the un coated outer.
Occasionally I've had bicycle cables freeze up in winter - but its usually
easier to avoid cable runs with dips that trap water.