deraileur cable cutting into leg

[Palaeodom]

Morning Hubbers,

 

Looking for some advice on how to eliminate a fairly uncomfortable cable situation. My cables run down the top of the top tube and every now and then when i need to stop abruptly my inner thigh drags along the cable often causing a cut or rather irritating abrasion. When i have asked my LBS to run full cable housing they said that the brackets for the cables couldn't be changed or adapted because they were installed on a carbon frame. Apparantly this is a problem with carbon frames.

 

Any ideas of how to either change cable brackets on a carbon frame to allow a full cable housing? and if so who could undertake such a job?

 

Or any ideas on how to cover the cable another way?

[AndreZA]

If you do not want to file the cable stops to make continuous housing (see in the tech forum) then just add a piece of outer housing between the stops. I don't see why the shop can't figure that one out.

[Wernervdmerwe]

You do get a plastic sheath for the exposed part though that should alleviate it, if you look inside your current cable, you'll see your current housing has something similar inside.

I got mine from CRC, but sure you can get them locally.

 

You also get clips that fastens to the current brackets that can take the full housing, often used to convert a frame from v-brakes only tabs to disk brakes.

[Johan Bornman]

Find a new bike shop. There are a dozen solutions to that problem.

[Moolz]

Dremel - FTW!