There are some clips that bolt in and keep all the cables neat and tidy. Just follow those. Do you not have those?

Don’t forget to leave a nice loop of rear mech cable and rear brake hose under the BB otherwise it will pull too tight at full suspension compression.

About the best shot I have…

IMAG0359 by Rick T., on Flickr

Not the clearest images but do these help you out mate? what exactly are you trying to see?

I run 10 speed and put both rear mech and brake hose down the 2 clip side. They then cross over under the BB where I just hold them together with a zip tie.

EDIT – one of the slots in the clips is fatter for the brake hose, so as long as hose is in that one I don’t suppose it matters for the other two as long as it works nicely at the headtube end and the BB end.

to answer your question above, if you’re looking at the bike head on then the left hand side of the down tube has one cable with the two other cables together over to the right hand side of the down tube.

so that’ll be Drive side one cable, non drive two.

Nice 2012 to Rickos by the way 🙂

In its latest form.

(sorry for thread-jacking by the way Renton)

Stumpy elite. I love it so much I’ve got a long list of upgrades for it. Still deciding if I should upgrade to 150 or 160mm forks.

Yeah I think some Fox 34’s in 150 are in order here but I need some wider bars and a reverb first.

Rosss, SNAP! Mine looks like that on a good day or at least a dry day…….does anyone remember those? Dry days…?

Peak District trip this weekend, that’ll be another dry one then.. 😐

renton, your latest one looks like the standard 2010 Expert frame – black with gloss black decals & details.

I had the same flaky paint issue with my 2010 silver Elite & they’d run out of alloy frames. They offered me a wait for a 2011 frame or £50 to upgrade to the carbon one. Guess what I went for?! Ended up with a carbon version. Not seen another one on the trails yet…

Would be interested to see how much different the Evo feels.

HOLY CRAP! That is pure filth! 😯 Bike porn at its best!

I was going to say to Steve that if your black is a large and you ever fancied a frame swap to a White and Black Elite one then just let me know.

If now been rocked by that carbon mutha, it looks awesome and nope, never seen another one on the trail either.

How does the whole frame warranty thing work anyway, do you have to show them some sort of receipt or something and they come bearing gifts of spangly new frames? Just how bad was the paint flaking issue and where abouts on the frame was it happening?

I can’t get over that Carbon number mate, its made my bike look rubbish! 🙁

Don’t say that Renton my 2013 Carbon Evo arrived yesterday and I’m still in a daze of carbon loveliness.

Just need to actually get out and ride it now.

Oh yeah…! The pics viewed on my phone look black. Looks very stealthy. The 2010 demo bike I rode was an expert with a really nice red paint job, like the glitter silver & not pillar box red. Hard to explain, but it looked great. Shame it wasn’t an available colour.

Looking through the archive site….it would appear that mine is the US 2010 carbon pro. Probably why I haven’t seen anyone else about on one…
Although sat outside the cafe at Thetford, we overheard a bloke ask his mate if ‘that bike over there is actually carbon fibre’ to which his mate replied that it wasn’t, just a carbon effect sticker job! Eek. My mate who was with me at the time still takes the mick out of my alloy frame with Halfords carbon stickers…

Jimtorch, yeah I think I struck lucky with that frame. I have heard the odd snide comment about it, along the lines of ‘all the gear, no idea’ but hey ho. I got a good deal on the original bike as the dealer knocked vat off it for me, so it was well under £2k.
The paint flaking started very slight – dots here & there but then spread to the whole bike, really. I wouldn’t have taken it back, apart from the fact that lots of it was in areas where you wouldn’t expect chips from rocks etc. and it clearly wasn’t impact damage.
Took it into the shop & they were sceptical, but raised it with Specialized who sorted it out no questions asked.

To be honest, I reckon that white/black version is one of the best looking paint jobs they’ve done in a while.

My frame still looks like new when it gets a clean, tinman66 so don’t worry about it. In fact, the only area showing it’s age is the alloy rear end where I had a chainsuck problem at a very muddy D2D that took some paint off.

Going back to Renton’s original query for a sec, I had exactly the same problem when I took my new Evo out the box, tried to attach the bars and all the cables / hoses were all over the place, couldn’t get it them to sit right.

Ended up taking the right hand brake and shifter off, untangling it all and refitting. Seems to sit right now although need to get the clear coat protectors on my frame to stop cable rub.

No idea how the shop would have fitted the bars as they were.

tinman66, that’s how i live my life and it’s also going to be on my gravestone

“all the gear, no idea”

Saying that, i’d better get my act together, i’ve just booked a trip to Glentress next May! AAWOOGA!

tinman66, you need to stick a photo up on here otherwise it doesn’t exist.

Where in the Peaks are you riding? We were going to head up to Hope the other day but ended up staying lower down and doing a route round Curbar and Calver edge area. Wet and muddy but a good natural ride, it was nice to mix it up from the usual Cannock and Llandegla trips and do some wilderness riding but at the end of it i immediately wanted to go to Cannock?! Bang for your buck i suppose.