Originally Posted by
Schweinhund
Thank you. I've been laughing to myself over this since another thread with much ado over nothing came up some time ago.
I have never, in all my years seen a straddle cable or brake break. I've pulled the ends off, but that was invariably a new cable and the the first squeeze trying to make it fail.
I have never seen that either. The built in safety factor of most products is pretty high. Consider that a 2.5mm wide zip tie is rated to 18 pounds and you realize quickly that steel wire is pretty strong. The Shimano straddle cable appears to have been created in a corporate liability lawyer's office on slow day.