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Old 07-28-13 | 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by cxwrench
What?!? Road and mountain shifters use the same cable. The cable in the OP's photo is a brake cable. A 'universal' shift cable would have a Shimano/SRAM end and a Campy end. That is a brake cable w/ Shimano/SRAM road end and a mountain bike end.
Look again. The picture of the cable apastrak attached is a derailer cable. It's a dual cable for mountain bike/road shifters which use the same end and a 3 speed/old Schwinn shifter which used a flat disc end that looks like a mountain bike brake cable end but is much smaller.

The attachment in a later post, shown below, illustrates the difference.

Originally Posted by apastrak

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