Originally Posted by
coolhandjjl
I’ve tried that with some degree of success. It seems like that’s what everyone does anyway. There are just a handful of yokes with screws to hold the straddle cable in place, those vintage Mojo Peace signs, the triangle ones, but very few. If that was the way to go, they would be all over the place. But they’re not, hardly anyone uses them.
Those were mostly a bling thing in the late '80s early '90s when mountain bikes still used cantilevers - remember when anything with purple anodising was cool? NOS stuff still turns up occasionally on eBay at reasonable prices, I've had a few, but not in purple.