I recently learned how to cable my road bike, which is an externally-routed, standard Shimano setup. Wasn't hard, and I got a lot of confidence in doing so.
Decided to recable my Cervelo P2 this morning. It should have been on slightly harder due to the internal cable routing, but man, I seemed to have figured out every possible way of screwing it up before I got it right:
1. Couldn't figure out how to get the cable to pop out near the BB. After 20 mins of trying, got a magnet, and 10 mins later, popped it out.
2. Fed it to the RD in triumph, to realize that I neglected to recut the cable housing that leads to the RD. No biggie, cut it and installed it.
3. Had a weird thing where my cable was hitting my chain, and realized that I'd routed the cable literally through the chain - untangled it.
4. Got it to sort of work, to me 5 more mins to realize I'd forgotten to route it through the cable routing channels under the BB and it was sliding around and catching.
5. Finally got all the cabling right, no catching, and then realized I had left the cable housing leading from the aerobar to the frame too long and it was dangling all over the place. This of course, meant I had to remove the cable from the internal housing - drat!
6. Pulled EVERYTHING, recut the aerobar cabling, reinstalled EVERYTHING (thanks magnet - still took 5-10 mins to get that cable out the bottom!), took a deep breath -
7. And realized that I had forgotton to internally route the cable housing through the aerobar hole, so it was drooping there, even though it worked. I could have just taped it to the aerobar, but since I'm a perfectionist -
8. Redid EVERYTHING yet again. Finally got it all to work. Indexing it was by far the easiest part, including the limiter screws!
9. Managed to snap 4 cable end caps before I realized my crimper sucked, and then took me awhile before I saw that my pliers had a good crimping section on it I could use.
WHEWWW!
Decided to recable my Cervelo P2 this morning. It should have been on slightly harder due to the internal cable routing, but man, I seemed to have figured out every possible way of screwing it up before I got it right:
1. Couldn't figure out how to get the cable to pop out near the BB. After 20 mins of trying, got a magnet, and 10 mins later, popped it out.
2. Fed it to the RD in triumph, to realize that I neglected to recut the cable housing that leads to the RD. No biggie, cut it and installed it.
3. Had a weird thing where my cable was hitting my chain, and realized that I'd routed the cable literally through the chain - untangled it.
4. Got it to sort of work, to me 5 more mins to realize I'd forgotten to route it through the cable routing channels under the BB and it was sliding around and catching.
5. Finally got all the cabling right, no catching, and then realized I had left the cable housing leading from the aerobar to the frame too long and it was dangling all over the place. This of course, meant I had to remove the cable from the internal housing - drat!
6. Pulled EVERYTHING, recut the aerobar cabling, reinstalled EVERYTHING (thanks magnet - still took 5-10 mins to get that cable out the bottom!), took a deep breath -
7. And realized that I had forgotton to internally route the cable housing through the aerobar hole, so it was drooping there, even though it worked. I could have just taped it to the aerobar, but since I'm a perfectionist -
8. Redid EVERYTHING yet again. Finally got it all to work. Indexing it was by far the easiest part, including the limiter screws!
9. Managed to snap 4 cable end caps before I realized my crimper sucked, and then took me awhile before I saw that my pliers had a good crimping section on it I could use.
WHEWWW!