Timeline for Do inner-routed cables have segments without a housing?
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| May 14, 2023 at 20:23 | comment | added | MaplePanda | @Sam They are already often available in the form of assembly and service documentation. It’s just certain brands that don’t make such info easily available to the public. And, for the careful buyer, the details of the cable routing setup are indeed very important and can make or break the purchase. For example, if a (carbon) frame has molded cable routing tubes, you cannot run a reversed brake setup with left hand rear, right hand front. | |
| May 14, 2023 at 16:59 | comment | added | Sam7919 | With groupsets amateur mechanics are used to reading the Dealer's Manual to find out how to maintain the components. Does something similar need to be done with frames? Before buying a frame, the (enthusiast) buyer would read the frame's Dealer Manual and would decide whether the solutions used for internal routing are up to the buyer's expectations. | |
| May 14, 2023 at 13:37 | comment | added | MaplePanda | @Sam There’s definitely no rattling with the housing-free design, but in my opinion housing rattle is a rudimentary engineering oversight. It is really not difficult to restrain a cable running through a tube…all it takes is a bit of foam liner or a few zip ties and access holes. Regarding cost, it cannot be cheap welding cable stops to the inside of frame tubes and then paying assembly workers to deal with that mess. | |
| May 14, 2023 at 9:17 | comment | added | Sam7919 | Neat.. but now it seems that there is another advantage to getting rid of the housing inside the frame. If an inner cable runs taut (as it must be) inside the frame, then the risk of cable slap and rattling noises can more easily be controlled. Are we still in the early stages of inner routing, and the right solutions are not yet well understood? Someone on chat recently suggested that rattling of inner cables is a factor being used to distinguish between different market segments, justified by the cost of properly insulating cables. A bare inner cable could solve rattling, and cheaply. | |
| May 14, 2023 at 4:28 | history | answered | MaplePanda | CC BY-SA 4.0 |