Originally Posted by
agmetal
The stem idea is interesting, but you've correctly assumed that it won't work on my bike (quill stem). In the second picture, that looks cleaner than I'd expected (although I have my right hand controlling the front brake, so it would be crossing in front of the headtube). Do you run into any issues or excessive noise with the cable bouncing around?
It was actually staying in place quite nicely. You can't see it from this angle, but the bolt-on fork bracket for the brake torque arm provided a nice place to tuck the housing in a way which kept it more stable than you'd think. I fully expected to have to zip tie it up near the crown, but never got around to it and it was never an issue. Might be a bit of trial and error, but if you got the correct housing length down, you might not even need to anchor the housing to the fork.