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03-28-12 | 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Puget Pounder

I'll give an opinion from the other side. I've done an under the tape routing, but that did not work well for me at all.

I had problems when I just used the existing cable housing (friction shifted bike with brake cable style housing for shifters). Once I changed it over to indexed shifting cable housing, it worked great.

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