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  • Stubborn cable rub – A cure I found
  • joolsburger
    Free Member

    I have a Cannondale with lots of cables. There’s lots of cable rub opportunities, especially where the cables pass through the lefty and the little stick on protectors weren’t good enough as they were wearing through. I found these,

    2mm thick, very sticky indeed, flexible (up to a point)and easy to cut to shape/size. Working really well.

    3 quid or so from Wilkinsons.

    hambl90
    Free Member

    Nice one , think I’ll give them a try.

    spooky_b329
    Full Member

    The decent fabric backed plasters are also really good for this…someone recommended them to us in Whistler after we discovered a cable rubbing a groove into the BB shell.

    Stuck one on and it lasted a good couple of years 🙂

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    akira
    Full Member

    Velcro sticky stuff also works well.

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    Stand off zip ties also work, cut the end off a cable plastic ferrul and run the zip tie round the cable then through that, then round the frame, stands the cable nicely 3mm from the frame

    lunge
    Full Member

    Noted, they look like a great solution.

    sq225917
    Free Member

    Park tools inner tube patches, the clear squarish ones, or self-adhesive dacron tape. I get about 6 month out of a piece of that and I heel clip on my stays like buggery- bad enough to wear through the heels on my shoes in about 12 months.

    nixie
    Full Member

    Sugru works as well. Easy to shape just how you need it as well.

    tuskaloosa
    Free Member

    nixie does the surge stay on though?

    mike – pretty nifty, might try that.

    zippykona
    Full Member

    Mike. Got a picture?

    nixie
    Full Member

    Long term TBC. Been on 2 months now and still seems fine.

    tuskaloosa
    Free Member

    zippy I think he means something like this

    belugabob
    Free Member

    If you’re doing a new build, and can thread things over the hoses/cable outers, these take some beating – for function and looks…

    http://www.decathlon.co.uk/outer-cable-frame-protectors-4-pack-id_8043647.html

    docrobster
    Free Member

    I think those decathlon jobbies are split down one side. Zig zag so don’t fall off. I got some recently

    tuskaloosa
    Free Member

    I have some of those outer cable frame protectors from SRAM and they are split… have lost a few mid ride

    jamj1974
    Full Member

    Nice find OP. I have used the Decathlon ones for a number of years and they are not split down one side – not the ones I used anyway. When I installed them on hydro hoses I did split them and simply superglued them and (Split side out) onto the hose. The functioned excellently.

    I am currently trying some spiral-type Fibrax ones and they see to be working well.

    mikewsmith
    Free Member


    An extended version of this

    belugabob
    Free Member

    I think those decathlon jobbies are split down one side. Zig zag so don’t fall off. I got some recently

    They’re not split, which is why you have to thread them over the hose.

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