John Siemsen wrote in about routing bar-end shifter cables. He mentioned some photos of Mario Confente in the Bicycle Trader. The photos and articles are in Februay-March 1999, and April 1999.
The Bicycle Trader is at http://www.bicycletrader.com/
My question relates to length of brake cale housing. Most published directions say to have the housing long enough to come straight out of the levers, yet Mario's bike has much shorter cables. I have seen beautiful vintage bikes with shorter cables, and equally beautiful ones where the cables are very high and loopy.
What is the optimum length?
Marcus Helman
Huntington Woods, MI