3alarmer, thank's for the routing pics. You still need a little slack at the stem to allow for turning radius, how did you decide on how much housing to leave before cutting them. Or am I overthinking this?
mstateglfr, this is really useful information that the micro-shift indexed bar-end shifters can be dumbed down to analog. Changes my calculus about new, more modern bar-ends.
To be honest, I was kind of digging on the vintage shifters, but new is better.
And yes, I still have top-cable brake levers, and while I get the point about comfort, I gotta draw the line somewhere.
Sorry for driving you crazy on the cheap-skate mentality, by if I don't put hard limitations on myself, after $100 here and $100 there, I could end up with $1,000 worth of stuff on a $200 bike (though I did go out and google the Raleigh Super Course and restored examples are going for almost $1,000: I hope who stole mine is still enjoying it; don't think Nisikis are ever going to enjoy the same collectibility).