I see. Seems that I'm a minority here and I'm cool with that. I have not had to work on the cables on this type of bike. On my last bike, which I had for 8 years, I never had to work on the cables either, though they were routed the conventional way. I know when they sell the frames, and I'm assuming the whole bike, the frames come with flexible stiff 'rods' pushed through where the cables will go. I wonder if having a set of those things would make working on the internal cabling a piece of cake or not...