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I want to use these:
http://www.fatbirds.co.uk/detail.asp/sku=Shimano_Dura-Ace_Road_gear_cable_set_with_PTFE_coa
but on 6500 series mechs with 7700 series shifters (all 9 speed).
Surely a gear cable is a gear cable? are the outers different in some way?
why do they quote: ''designed for Dura-Ace 7900 and Ultegra 6700 gears ''?
I presume they will work on my set up without issue?
I've never seen I gear cable that wasn't universally cross compatible (bar shimano vs campag)
As long as you are using outers that are compatible with the inners, I cant see a reason why they wouldn't work!
ive never worked out the difference between campag and shimano either (never owned campag).
can anyone enlighten me?
There are issues!!!!
I spent a good hour on Saturday night trying to run a new gear cable down a friends Sram equipped road bike outers.
Would it hell as like go in!! 😥
I kept turning the inner cable, applying gentle pressure, cutting off the slightly splayed end, (again). It just wasn't having it.
I tried several spare inner cables, then suddenly one just went straight in, no bother at all! 😮
Just as an experiment I bought two cables the next day, one from the place I'd bought the spare that fitted, the other from another local shop.
Lo and behold, one fitted, one didn't!
On close examination, one was just slightly thinner than the other, but it made all the difference.
When it came to running new inner cables through her Shimano equipped road outers, anything and everything went straight in, no bother at all.
I fitted some XTR inners into my Gore Rideon outers a few months ago and they were tight. Not so bad that I'm not using the combo but I reckon there are some variations in cable sizes out there.