Originally Posted by rpenmanparker

For electronic it makes sense for the wires to not be exposed...at least to me. For mechanical shifting I certainly don't see it as an improvement, but what's so wrong about it? So many folks are bashing it, I just thought I would ask.

I was dreading running the cables on my new Chinese carbon frame (Cervelo design through and through), but it was stupid easy. The Cervelo-style cable management system is so damn good, it makes running the cables a total non-issue. And the cables are routed so they don't touch the inside walls of the tubes. No internal cable slap noise so far, so I am a happy camper. I did the routing before pressing in the bottom bracket along with its sleeve so I had the whole open BB shell to work in. That was pretty easy. It will be interesting to see how it goes to change out cables if I choose to leave the BB installed when I do that. But RMS13 reports that he ran the cables with the BB in place, so it can't be that big of a deal.