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index/friction cable
Is there any difference in the inner cable used in friction vs. indexed shifting? -- meb |
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meb wrote: Is there any difference in the inner cable used in friction vs. indexed shifting? -- meb No..but that means you can use an index inner wire on friction. Cannot use a crappy friction inner wire on index. |
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Is there any difference in the inner cable used in friction vs. indexed shifting? http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brandt/sis-cable.html Shift and brake cable failure usually occurs when one strand of the cable is worn about half way through. The reason for this is that being helically wound, all strands pass the same friction spot as the "one" as they pass through the inside of a bend, the place where the cable rubs in its curved path, so they are ALL worn half way through. The cause of local wear is generally a sharp bend in the housing. That sharp bend flexes the cable as it moves lengthwise under load and causes fatigue cracking in the strands as they wear asymmetrically, becoming half round in cross section. Super flex cables are made of stranded strands and the same rule holds for them, except that their strands are less than 1/6 as thick as conventional cable and therefore wear half way through proportionally faster. This first came my attention when Campagnolo introduced bar end shifters that use super flex cable. Although shift cables are not as heavily loaded as brake cables, they fail relatively more often because even conventional ones have smaller strands. Jobst Brandt |
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index/friction cable
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 00:40:57 +1100, meb
wrote: Is there any difference in the inner cable used in friction vs. indexed shifting? No. -- Typoes are a feature, not a bug. Some gardening required to reply via email. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts. |
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