Originally Posted by
Bill Kapaun
OK for "beginners".
If you fix a lot of bikes, you can probably buy Shimano cables & housings in bulk and be as competitive price wise and hopefully have better quality.
Anything I am building up for myself I get good cables from LBS . It's been a while since I worked on anything except for kids bikes. They used to be $6.97 at Walmart . I have used them to get a bike rideable and upgraded later. Once I decided I was going to keep a bike