Originally Posted by
noglider
Small differences in cost are very important to manufacturers, so you can't dismiss them as insignificant.
Sure, over the production run over X00,000 bikes, little costs add up.
I phrased it poorly, but I can't seem to find a correlation between high end bikes and one way or cable routing compared to entry level bikes.
I would figure the cost saving approach would have been typically used on entry level frames.
But I've seen entry level with cable guides and cable stops. I've seen beautiful high end frames with cable stops and cable guides.
Wasn't sure if anyone knew the rhyme to the reason and why one way was chosen over another on any given bike.