While a lot of these tips work great on most frames, Treks of this era are absolutely incorrigible in their difficulty. I struggled and struggled, and then gave up and took it to a shop; little did they know that it was a mistake to charge a flat fee for cable replacement.

I've actually gotten so fed up with it that I took a drill to my bike (the only time I will confess to doing something so rash). You can actually expand the hole that the cable leaves quite a bit and still have it function as a cable stop.