I just learned with certainty to never spend a legit amount of $ for MTB thru Mail....unless you fully check out identical bike. Duh. I've been riding MTBs for several years. However,I am a novice about the mechanics of them due to the billions of different setups. i.e. Cranks, chainrings, BBs, does this fit that? etc. Anyway I had a 2014 Giant Anthem carbon That I did buy from ebay and got lucky because the thing was awesome.....full suspension it was 25 lbs..max and I had regular rims......that transaction went well, it was used from private seller. Loved it rode it until i unfortunately sold it last spring.....

My question: isn't internal routing standard by now considering my '14 had it? I loved that feature and I'm pissed because I bought a 2018 Can Fsi carbon 1....not cheap.......external routing.......Cannondale WTF?

Any input or reasoning to this...int. routing looks so clean...cables protected...etc.....I'm lost.....why would they do that......apparently the new ones are int.. Ohh yeah....the '18 Cannondale is unused from a shop in FL. There is no mention at all about cable routing. I have no problem with the shop....and looking back at the pics, you can see the the rear cables being ext. routing...IMO there vague especially since MTBs have been internal for years........Not all of them i now see....
thanx for any input....