Hi all. A bit of a novice question here. I’m moving my aero bars from my old TT bike to my current road bike to play around with having two cockpits for the same bike.
I’ve got shimano bar end shifters on a profile design T1+. I’ve got the shifters disconnected from the bar itself but the cabling means I can’t free the aero bars completely. Do I simply cut the shifting cable as close to the shifters as possible?
I checked another post on this forum and I’m pretty sure that’s what I need to do, but wanted to double check in case I’m making a stupid error!
Undo the retaining bolt on the derailleur/brake end of the cable then thread it backwards through your shifter.
No need to cut anything and that way, if you are a tight-ass, you might be able to reuse the cables.
I like the option of being a tight arse so I’ll give it a go and see if i can add the cable to my box of spare parts. Thanks for the help. Much appreciated
Yes just unthread from the derailleur and pull it all through. If you cut it anywhere near the shifters the cable is done and cannot be reused as you’d be cutting off the cable stop. If you have new cables ready to go and are replacing anyways, I think cutting it would be easier.
until you start reusing and pushing through housing again, then the cable will fray and become worthless unless you do something to the end to prevent that.
I just recabled my aero bars last PM. I read some where, to just use a cold chisel and hammer on the cable and it will give a perfect unfrayed cut. I decided to do that and voila a perfect no frayed end. I was shocked. Watch for the flying end piece though. The cable threaded perfectly through the cable housing.
Tonight I might try that with the cable housing. I bet it will be tougher and it will smoosh the cut end so will have to crimp it open and use a small nail to open the plastic sheath inside.
I managed to thread the cable back through the cable housing without doing anything special. I just twisted the wire by hand so that there weren’t any frayed edges and once inside it threaded through with no major problems
A nice pair of cable cutters is a worthwhile investment if you plan on cabling/recabling your own bike. A pair of diagonal cutters will do, but it pinches the cable unevenly resulting in a flatter cut that will be prone to fraying. The ones that we use at the shop have blades that are curved inward to exert cutting pressure all the way around the cable simultaneously. The sharper your cutters the better, too. Our cable cutters don’t get used for anything but cable, whereas the diag.'s get used for cutting all kinds of crap wherever scissors won’t do the trick or aren’t convenient.
As I’ve recabled my bike several times, I’ve often wondered whether the frayed cable ends are scratching the coating that lines my housing. Thus, I’ll typically just cut myself new housing whenever I replace the cables.