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Old 10-19-15 | 12:16 PM
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Bikes: '18 class built steel roadbike, '19 Fairlight Secan, '88 Schwinn Premis , Black Mountain Cycles Monstercross V4, '89 Novara Trionfo

I was just going off the previous post mentioning it costs about $26/ft. I hadn't even looked up any prices as I really don't know anything about it. Last I checked, compressionless housing didn't work for brake cables because the cable would inevitably break thru the housing and render the brakes useless. Clearly there have been some advancements in brake cable housing.

$30 is expensive compared to the $7 total it takes to put new lined housing and stainless cables on one of my bikes right now, but that's at least an amount which is reasonable enough to try something out and test the improvement.

What little ive googled shows compressionless is specifically for disc brakes. Is compressionless brake housing like indexed vs friction where compressionless shift housing works great for friction even though it was made for indexed? Or is compressionless brake housing specifically for disc brakes and not to be used otherwise?

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