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Handlebars for barcons?
I picked up a Fuji S12-S.
It has bar-end shifters. I can't stand the narrow bars and have not removed them yet. Will I find grooves? For the barcons? It seems like the cable coming out of the barcons is underneath the bars right from the beginning, not coming out a hole, but I can't tell if there is a groove it is in. I'd like to replace the bars and also the brake levers. With BR400 aero levers. I have a 3TTT drop bar from a 8-speed 1st gen Ultegra bike. Will it work? thx |
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On 11/21/2016 2:18 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
I picked up a Fuji S12-S. It has bar-end shifters. I can't stand the narrow bars and have not removed them yet. Will I find grooves? For the barcons? It seems like the cable coming out of the barcons is underneath the bars right from the beginning, not coming out a hole, but I can't tell if there is a groove it is in. I'd like to replace the bars and also the brake levers. With BR400 aero levers. I have a 3TTT drop bar from a 8-speed 1st gen Ultegra bike. Will it work? No grooves in a bar in that area. Casing just tapes to the bars. Wrap over it. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On 11/21/2016 12:18 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
I picked up a Fuji S12-S. It has bar-end shifters. I can't stand the narrow bars and have not removed them yet. Will I find grooves? For the barcons? It seems like the cable coming out of the barcons is underneath the bars right from the beginning, not coming out a hole, but I can't tell if there is a groove it is in. I'd like to replace the bars and also the brake levers. With BR400 aero levers. I have a 3TTT drop bar from a 8-speed 1st gen Ultegra bike. Will it work? Your 3TTT bars should be fully compatible with the bar-cons. If you mean do the existing handlebars have grooves for the cable, almost certainly not. Barcons started going /out/ of style right around the time that grooved bars (for brake cables and Ergo shifters mostly) started appearing. The only limitation on replacement bar compatibility with bar-cons will be if the hole at the bar end is too small, and only *cheap* small-diameter steel bars might have that problem. Traditional bar-cons run the cable housing between the bar and tape, along the underside of the bar, from the end of the bar to ... wherever you decide. The overwhelmingly typical arrangement is for the housing to come out from under the bar tape shortly after the bar starts turning upward. In the /old/ days, pre-index, some would run the housing under the bar tape to the very top of the bar, near the stem. This looked cleaner but was alleged to introduce more friction to the cable system; I never tried that arrangement. I have seen photos of a setup with drilled holes in the bars and cable housing run internally; housing exited the bars through a hole near the stem. The photo, of course, was of the bars after they failed at this upper hole. Not a good idea. Mark J. |
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On 11/21/2016 4:00 PM, Mark J. wrote:
On 11/21/2016 12:18 PM, Doug Landau wrote: I picked up a Fuji S12-S. It has bar-end shifters. I can't stand the narrow bars and have not removed them yet. Will I find grooves? For the barcons? It seems like the cable coming out of the barcons is underneath the bars right from the beginning, not coming out a hole, but I can't tell if there is a groove it is in. I'd like to replace the bars and also the brake levers. With BR400 aero levers. I have a 3TTT drop bar from a 8-speed 1st gen Ultegra bike. Will it work? Your 3TTT bars should be fully compatible with the bar-cons. If you mean do the existing handlebars have grooves for the cable, almost certainly not. Barcons started going /out/ of style right around the time that grooved bars (for brake cables and Ergo shifters mostly) started appearing. The only limitation on replacement bar compatibility with bar-cons will be if the hole at the bar end is too small, and only *cheap* small-diameter steel bars might have that problem. Traditional bar-cons run the cable housing between the bar and tape, along the underside of the bar, from the end of the bar to ... wherever you decide. The overwhelmingly typical arrangement is for the housing to come out from under the bar tape shortly after the bar starts turning upward. In the /old/ days, pre-index, some would run the housing under the bar tape to the very top of the bar, near the stem. This looked cleaner but was alleged to introduce more friction to the cable system; I never tried that arrangement. I have seen photos of a setup with drilled holes in the bars and cable housing run internally; housing exited the bars through a hole near the stem. The photo, of course, was of the bars after they failed at this upper hole. Not a good idea. Agreed. I have bar end shifters on six bikes in the house. (Some are index, some friction.) No holes in the bars. None are necessary. BTW, four of those bikes have the shift cables under the tape all the way up close to the stem. I don't have any problem with cable friction on those bikes, including the one with index shifting. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 1:54:08 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 11/21/2016 4:00 PM, Mark J. wrote: On 11/21/2016 12:18 PM, Doug Landau wrote: I picked up a Fuji S12-S. It has bar-end shifters. I can't stand the narrow bars and have not removed them yet. Will I find grooves? For the barcons? It seems like the cable coming out of the barcons is underneath the bars right from the beginning, not coming out a hole, but I can't tell if there is a groove it is in. I'd like to replace the bars and also the brake levers. With BR400 aero levers. I have a 3TTT drop bar from a 8-speed 1st gen Ultegra bike. Will it work? Your 3TTT bars should be fully compatible with the bar-cons. If you mean do the existing handlebars have grooves for the cable, almost certainly not. Barcons started going /out/ of style right around the time that grooved bars (for brake cables and Ergo shifters mostly) started appearing. The only limitation on replacement bar compatibility with bar-cons will be if the hole at the bar end is too small, and only *cheap* small-diameter steel bars might have that problem. Traditional bar-cons run the cable housing between the bar and tape, along the underside of the bar, from the end of the bar to ... wherever you decide. The overwhelmingly typical arrangement is for the housing to come out from under the bar tape shortly after the bar starts turning upward. In the /old/ days, pre-index, some would run the housing under the bar tape to the very top of the bar, near the stem. This looked cleaner but was alleged to introduce more friction to the cable system; I never tried that arrangement. I have seen photos of a setup with drilled holes in the bars and cable housing run internally; housing exited the bars through a hole near the stem. The photo, of course, was of the bars after they failed at this upper hole. Not a good idea. Agreed. I have bar end shifters on six bikes in the house. (Some are index, some friction.) No holes in the bars. None are necessary. BTW, four of those bikes have the shift cables under the tape all the way up close to the stem. I don't have any problem with cable friction on those bikes, including the one with index shifting. -- - Frank Krygowski And the end openings on all bars are almost identical. The only differences are production tolerances. |
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On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 1:54:08 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 11/21/2016 4:00 PM, Mark J. wrote: On 11/21/2016 12:18 PM, Doug Landau wrote: I picked up a Fuji S12-S. It has bar-end shifters. I can't stand the narrow bars and have not removed them yet. Will I find grooves? For the barcons? It seems like the cable coming out of the barcons is underneath the bars right from the beginning, not coming out a hole, but I can't tell if there is a groove it is in. I'd like to replace the bars and also the brake levers. With BR400 aero levers. I have a 3TTT drop bar from a 8-speed 1st gen Ultegra bike. Will it work? Your 3TTT bars should be fully compatible with the bar-cons. If you mean do the existing handlebars have grooves for the cable, almost certainly not. Barcons started going /out/ of style right around the time that grooved bars (for brake cables and Ergo shifters mostly) started appearing. The only limitation on replacement bar compatibility with bar-cons will be if the hole at the bar end is too small, and only *cheap* small-diameter steel bars might have that problem. Traditional bar-cons run the cable housing between the bar and tape, along the underside of the bar, from the end of the bar to ... wherever you decide. The overwhelmingly typical arrangement is for the housing to come out from under the bar tape shortly after the bar starts turning upward. In the /old/ days, pre-index, some would run the housing under the bar tape to the very top of the bar, near the stem. This looked cleaner but was alleged to introduce more friction to the cable system; I never tried that arrangement. I have seen photos of a setup with drilled holes in the bars and cable housing run internally; housing exited the bars through a hole near the stem. The photo, of course, was of the bars after they failed at this upper hole. Not a good idea. Agreed. I have bar end shifters on six bikes in the house. (Some are index, some friction.) No holes in the bars. None are necessary. BTW, four of those bikes have the shift cables under the tape all the way up close to the stem. I don't have any problem with cable friction on those bikes, including the one with index shifting. Kool. Sending them forward in big loops sure looks awful |
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