Old 03-10-10 | 08:39 PM
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Replacing a busted FD that has a cable stop on the clamp

I was riding home last night on my old commuter (1983/84? Lotus Elan, old Taiwanese import and my first road bike from high school) and on an upshift to the big chainring it overshifted. I was a bit surprised as this is an old friction shifting setup, and the limit screws were set up fine. When I turned the high limit screw on the FD, nothing moved. Turns out the "barrel" of the inner linkage got split in two, probably just so old the stress of being mashed up hard against the high stop too many times eventually broke it... I did tighten up the cable tension a while ago because it had been super loose and wasn't upshifting good.

Anyhow, this FD is old and has a cable stop on the thing itself where cable housing comes from a stop low on the downtube and goes up to the FD clamp stop. There is already an old style clamp on cable guide over top of the bracket going to the RD (I think it's clamped low on the downtube). Where can I buy an FD that has the cable stop on it? If that's really hard to find, where can I find a seattube clamping cable stop so I can run a standard style FD? I'm not looking to spend a lot of money either, whatever is cheap. It actually still works, no high limit stop, but not sure how long it will keep working... Thanks!
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