Shifter cable exit

[Friend]

I am about to finish my new drop-bar cockpit with bar-end shifters.  Almost every drop bar I see has the cables for the bar-end shifters departing from the bars a few inches away from the shifters on the bottom part of the bar.  I brought the housing all the way up to the middle of the bars where both the brake and shifter cables exit together and go to their respective places.  Before I wrapp and shellack, I want to make sure that I'm not missing some obvious inconvenience that this may cause down the road.  Do ya'll have preferences on this matter?

[Joe Bernard]

The only potential (not likely) problem is all those bends will cause enough friction to screw up the shifting. This is a bigger concern with indexed, but will probably be fine either way.

[Friend]

Good point.  Also, as I'm discovering with frustration, shifter cables don't come long enough to reach the rear derailleur on 63cm frames.

[Eric Norris]

Look for tandem-specific shifter cables. 

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[Steve Palincsar]

On 6/25/20 1:18 PM, Friend wrote:
> Good point.  Also, as I'm discovering with frustration, shifter cables
> don't come long enough to reach the rear derailleur on 63cm frames.

If they come long enough to reach the rear derailleur on a tandem,
they'll reach the rear derailleur on a 63 cm frame.  Ask for a tandem
shift cable.

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Steve Palincsar
Alexandria, Virginia
USA

[Joe Bernard]

Riv sells them.

https://www.rivbike.com/products/copy-of-yokozuna-derailleur-cable-each

[Jeremy Till]

That's the case with big frames and bar end shifters whether you route the cables outside the tape (as I prefer) or wrap it all the way to the middle. I ride 64cm frames with bar ends and have always needed tandem cables on the rear.  

-Jeremy Till

Sacramento, CA

[Michael Baquerizo]

I ride 51cm and did the same thing once upon a time. I also needed a tandem cable to make it work. 

with that being said, i never had any issues but I think at the time i was running my shimano shifters indexed. 

[Paul Brodek]

I'm pretty retentive, but I do not like bar-end housing flopping around in the breeze under the brake levers. That's how we did it back in the day, but not everything we did back in the day was necessarily right and good.

They flop around, they get in the way of your hands moving about on the bar, and they can get in the way of bags and stuff. They offendeth mine eyes.

Decent-quality lined housing and decent-quality cables will work fine, even with indexed shifting. Just keep the bends smooth, make sure you cut housing ends clean/square, use good ferrules, and bob's yer mother's brother.

If you want the ultimate in retentiveness, and your frame has under-bb cable guides, criss-cross rear/front housing in front of the head tube and then criss-cross the cables under the down tube, so right/rear housing to left/front down tube stop, left/front housing to right/rear stop. That helps prevent the housing from rubbing/scraping at the bottom of the head tube, kinder for your paint. I've never had the cables under the down tube harm the paint, but I sometimes add a couple/few cable donuts because retentive. See above.

If you combine this with aero brake levers and, even better, with cross interrupter levers, you get a very nice swoopy, symmetrical flow of housing, and if you're lucky it provides a visual framing for your cool head badge/decal.

Of course, one individual's cool aesthetics is somebody else's yuck, so no hard feelings if you disagree.

Some of these pix are with brifters, not bar-cons, but it's the same cable/housing path, so the same general look. And some may be 1x builds, so there's only one der cable. And you can't see the Paramount head badge because the bag is in the way. But that was the only one I could find easily with actual bar-cons.

Paul Brodek
Hillsdale, NJ USA

[Gustavo Vasquez]

Hi! 

I always wrap mine to the top like brifters. 

That’s just me. 

🤷🏽‍♂️

Gustavo in Santa Rosa 

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On Jun 24, 2020, at 12:09 PM, Friend <jtp...@gmail.com> wrote:



I am about to finish my new drop-bar cockpit with bar-end shifters.  Almost every drop bar I see has the cables for the bar-end shifters departing from the bars a few inches away from the shifters on the bottom part of the bar.  I brought the housing all the way up to the middle of the bars where both the brake and shifter cables exit together and go to their respective places.  Before I wrapp and shellack, I want to make sure that I'm not missing some obvious inconvenience that this may cause down the road.  Do ya'll have preferences on this matter?

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[Nerl L.]

I used friction shifters with mustache bars wrapped the way you describe without problems.  But drop bars would be longer and sharper angled.  Maybe ride it a few days before wrapping the bars to see how it feels?

Noah

On Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 3:09:45 PM UTC-4, Friend wrote: