Hi all,
I am planning on running a full length rear gear cable outer. To do this I would need to drill the current cable mounts/bosses or run cable ties. I'd prefer a neater job so I will consider drilling.
What is the correct method to do this? Has anyone done this before? The bike is a Meta 5.
Cheers
Colin
Dunno what the routing is like on a Meta, but if it's a bit higgledy piggledy then a full length outer might be a bad idea.
Drilling is fine, Ive done it on a few frames, also, a good set of files might be just as easier, they should go through alloy like a knife through butter.
I'd opt for the round needle file approach, as mentioned above. It keeps the holes nice and square to the frame if you're careful.
Another option (which I've also done) is hacksaw the closed end of the cable stop off
Drilling can go wrong, especially when the drill goes through and the chuck catches up......
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I used Araldite for securing the hose guides, before sending the frame to the powdercoaters. Not a bad job I think!
You can see the hole in the swingarm where the internal routing exits.
File sounds like a safer bet.
The routing is awkward on the Meta anyway. It is only to cover a short section underneath the downtube. Here is a link a photo of the Meta, you can see the cable route through the rear swingarm...
http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/8493518/
looking at the photo, I reckon I'd leave it as is.
I found my Cotic (with an exposed section along the TT) has smoother/less draggy shifting than my other hardtails that I'd run a full outer on.
I used a dremel on my Voodoo initially to drill out the gear cable stops to run full-length cable outer to my Rohloff.
Have more recently taken it one stage further and cut the cable guides open so I can fit the cable outer in without having to detach the gearbox mech and thread the outer through. Means I can remove the entire system and fit to the other bike (long-term project) at some point, without taking the cables apart, just snip the cable-ties.
Having the "half" guides left in means there's something to cable-tie the outers too.
You can sort of see here on the mount between the frame bag and the seat-tube:
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Being a tart, I've since replaced the seatpost cable with matching silver braided outer, and replaced the black cable ties with grey ones 🙂
Good info folks.
The problem is that my shifting gets effect with the muck/water ingress at the mount points on the downtube, more so now in the autumn/winter months. I've tried Mudlovers before but thought they were poor.
Probably worth doing then if you think your shifting deteriorates when it gets muddy.