Originally Posted by
Bikedued
Cable routing has become ridiculous, with 90* bends just ahead of the rear axles, causing more than a few shifting issues on the new Venge. You don't want to know how many times Tarmac's came back within a month of purchase, with the BB's creaking. Specialized offered only bandaid fixes that only wasted our time, until the frame was replaced. Then a while later it happened again. Components are also TWICE as finicky as they used to be. Tuning them takes a lot of Finesse, meanwhile you're fighting cable routing that causes the cables to drag and mess up shifting. If it doesn't drive you nuts, you eventually come out the victor, and can hand the customer a nicely shifting bike that satisfies the dent in their wallet. The higher tech bikes become, the worse the problems.,,,,BD
Since you mentioned Specialzed....
I've been into the local Specialzed S-Dealer* a few times and all of bike have crap cables on them. I'll squeeze the brakes to how smooth they are everyone isn't, you can feel each stand of cable sliding. This is caused by either cheap cables or poor setup. It looked like most of the Specialized bike had Jagwire cable which are decent cable but they aren't Shimano quality. Perhaps Specialized is going to cheap in the cable department. Specialized bike are near the bottom of my list so it's good to hear they're having problems