Please don't use SIS cable casing for brake housing. The failure mode is catastrophic and the SIS casing is not made to handle the higher compressive loads a brake puts on it.
Andrew Stewart
Raleigh, NC
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> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:01:59 +0000 (UTC)
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> Subject: [CR]Re: Aero cable routiing of Campy NR levers.
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> I recall asking Gary Page at Turin Bicycle Co-op in Evanston about a bike
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> et up this way, back in the early '80s. He said part of the trick was
> to use very stiff cable housing. I'm thinking that if you drill a hol
> e in the back of the body, you're going to have a very short throw so any
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> ompression would compromise your braking action. And if you're going to
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> ll the bars for internal routing [don't] someone suggested removing the
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> stic sheath to allow a smaller hole. So, I'd suggest just using SIS type
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> railleur housing. I set up a bike once for a young woman w/ no left hand
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> drilling a small 2nd hole in the Campy Ergo power brake cable pivot a
> nd through the body. There wasn't much room so i used SIS housing to the
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> ar brake. I don't recall if i used a brake cable or derailleur cable. If
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> e former i probably had to file down the pear end as it was pretty crowded
> in there. Anyway SIS housing and a thinner brake cable should work for
> your
> purposes. Good luck. Billy Ketchum; Chicago, IL; USA.
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