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Did you buy the bike new? Have the cables been replaced since the new sale? What brand/model? Is there a LBS involved?
What you describe is not common, a cable with a short section of some sort of low friction (plastic?) coating, only at the correct spot for this bike and it's size, that is adhered to the cable enough to require destructive removal, that happens to fit through the bike brand's cable pathways well enough to not snag on them. If all this is correct than I would consider these cables to be a OEM/specific to that bike design and spec. In which case the brand, one would assume easily, should have some obligation to provide these cables for their annual replacement for at least the duration of the frame warranty.
Or you have common cables that you don't fully understand the liner and cable relationship. Andy
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