Originally Posted by
Andy_K
Those I'll use. They work very well. The other kind that just go in the middle of the cable somewhere frustrate me. They can be difficult to turn with one hand, and if you put them in the wrong place (as whoever assembled my 2015 Jake the Snake did) the ferrule can slip out and introduce friction in the cable routing.
Mine (the Jagwire ones I linked to above) have been flawless over the last 12 months of riding. I find it really hard to see how a ferrule could slip out, being as the FD cable is under constant tension. I was really dreading using these inline adjusters as I had heard a lot of horror stories about them constantly slipping an needing readjustments, but in the last 3000 miles I think I have felt the need to tweak them twice, after the initial setup.