Cheesed. Waited 8 days for my new bike to arrive and the dropper cable isn't even attached to the seat post.
I've had a look down the seat tube and can't see it there at all.
Any suggestions where it might be 🤣 and how to coax it back out?
I'll try a nut on a bit of string.....
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Doesn't work. Nut doesn't go round the bend.
Any ideas?
Have you checked it's not AXS? 😜Â
Looks like they have internal routing tubes so you should be able to take the lever off the bars (to give you a bit more slack) and feed more cable through until it does appear up the seat tube.
Have you checked it's not AXS?Â
That made me proper laugh, despite a shit evening.
I eventually coaxed the nut round the bend and got it in. So that's now sorted.
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Many thanks
Disconnect the cable from the lever. Remove the inner. Thread a new inner down the outer and hopefully it'll poke out the seat tube. Grab it with pliers and once the barrel end bottoms out on the outer, you should be able to use the inner to pull the outer through the frame.
Downside is that if the new inner doesn't poke through the seat tube, you've made it worse that it was before you've started...
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I think what you suggest makes sense bens, but I'm not sure that the outer was even around the BB curve at that point.
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Since this topic hasn't yet dropped off the front page I might as well ask my follow up....Â
Is the cable too short? ( Or at least shorter than usual)
The only way I could get the outer to poke out of the seat tube was to disconnect the lever completely and put it really close to the down tube entry port. On other setups I just needed to turn the bars a bit so that the spare at the front could feed in, but this one is way shorter.
Spare at seat tube= 1pinky
Spare at handlebar = one middle finger
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Hmmm. Show the damn picture
Ffs
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That looks fine - as long as you've got enough slack to turn the bars once the post is in its inserted position you should be good.