Originally Posted by
zukahn1
If you're selling the bike, I would just route behind the bars ... direct ... not as elegant but this is how the cable routing came on most of these stock...
i think you're saying keep it original: from left lever over the bar, not crossing the stem, direct and down to the left side of the caliper. right?
switching the brakes europen style just wouldn't make sense on a bike your going to sell on CL.
i appreciate the advice. is this the consensus here? do shoppers care more about "left is front," rather than aesthetics of perfectly crossing cables over the stem?
Originally Posted by
Chombi
... consider running the rear brake cable in front ... as they cross ...
the reason i place the front cable ahead of the rear (as they cross the stem behind the bar) is to allow the rear cable, which is less flimsy at this point, to keep the front cable in place. it works.
Originally Posted by
Chombi
Routing ... from left lever to the front caliper ... makes for the ... smoothest of arcs ... which translates to the smoothest cable action. Routing it from the right lever results in a tighter arc...
i agree ... if the caliper accepts cable on its right side. your explanation is the reason for the routing in the pic and the same routing for the mixte, though it is a mirror image of the pic due to the caliper's left cable entry.
so given this theory of "smoothest action," are you a fan of routing right lever to front caliper when cable entry is on the caliper's left?