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Hoss Cartright
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From: Mid N/W Indiana

Bikes: Schwinns, lots of them. Some Paramounts

A little trick I devised for mounting bar-end shifters

On my 1973 P10-9 Paramount with Suntour bar-end shifters. The effects of gravity, road vibration and bouncing up and down, eventually the stainless cable housings were cutting through my bar wrap and then the housings were drooping onto the fork crown and bouncing around.

After two re-wrap tries within three or four hundred miles, I was thinking that I needed some type of a clamp to hold them before I did the wrap.

I took two crusty old Schwinn snap-on-type cable frame clips..

I ground-off the ends that flared out with my belt sander. They clip on the bars, hold the cables very well, and with a chaser of electrical tape for security, when the bars are re-wrapped they are not visible at all and the cables will stop cutting my wrap.

Probably someone else figured this out way before me, maybe there is some zombie thread.. Who knows, just thought I would pass-on my little idea. Or it's over-kill,, What can I say, It's winter, I'm bored.. What's a type A to do but fiddle with a Paramount...

A couple of pics.




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