Any Eddy Experts out there?.
11-16-14 | 08:32 AM
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when I built up my 7-11 corsa extra I held my breath when I fed the brake cable in...and let it out when it emerged out!
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1989 Schwinn Paramount OS
1980 Mclean/Silk Hope Sport Touring
1983 Bianchi pista
1976 Fuji Feather track
1979 raleigh track
"I've consulted my sources and I'm pretty sure your derailleur does not exist"
11-16-14 | 10:09 AM
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I think those actually have a internal tube no?
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11-16-14 | 10:34 AM
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I have three Corsa Extras and, yes, they all have an internal tube within the top tube. My Tommasini Super Prestige has internal brake cable routing without the internal tube and it nearly drove me mad trying to get that one lousy little end of cable to come through.
Edit: my Team Hitachi Corsa Extra has external cable routing underneath the top tube, I misremembered that detail
Edit: my Team Hitachi Corsa Extra has external cable routing underneath the top tube, I misremembered that detail
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11-16-14 | 11:50 AM
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My Corsa Extra had external TT cable routing.
The hardest ones to feed, in my experience, are the "tubeless," including my D'Arienzo and numerous older Kestrel Carbons.
The most difficult has always been my Kestrel K40 Airfoil, as not only is the TT brake cable internal, so are the shifter cables.
You basically shove them in until you hear them inside, insert a long hook into the dime-sized hole in the BB, and then fish out the cables.
For the TT routing on steel bikes and the Kestrels (which have a spring-loaded widget inside), I've used thick weed-whacker line.
It has a natural curve and some tensile strength.
The trick is to get it to the opening, and spy the little bastid in there, get it through.
After that, I tape it to a long "blank" cable, and then run housing over it.
The hardest ones to feed, in my experience, are the "tubeless," including my D'Arienzo and numerous older Kestrel Carbons.
The most difficult has always been my Kestrel K40 Airfoil, as not only is the TT brake cable internal, so are the shifter cables.
You basically shove them in until you hear them inside, insert a long hook into the dime-sized hole in the BB, and then fish out the cables.
For the TT routing on steel bikes and the Kestrels (which have a spring-loaded widget inside), I've used thick weed-whacker line.
It has a natural curve and some tensile strength.
The trick is to get it to the opening, and spy the little bastid in there, get it through.
After that, I tape it to a long "blank" cable, and then run housing over it.
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