Cable routing under the bar tape with Campag levers?

on-yer-bike

I'm replacing my bars. The old ones have a groove in the front and one at the back to accommodate Campag's 2 cables. The new bars only have a groove at the front. Do I run both cables at the front or still run the gears at the front and the brake at the back? Zinn says he prefers both along the front but doesn't explain why.

ugo.santalucia

I've got both on the front on my campagnolo equipped bike

Wappygixer

I bought some Ritchey WCS bars at the weekend and they only had front routing.
I prefer to use the front routing as opposed to running a cable under the bar tape at the back as its a bit annoying to my hands, I also think it looks neater too.

DavidBelcher

on-yer-bike wrote:

I'm replacing my bars. The old ones have a groove in the front and one at the back to accommodate Campag's 2 cables. The new bars only have a groove at the front. Do I run both cables at the front or still run the gears at the front and the brake at the back? Zinn says he prefers both along the front but doesn't explain why.

Not sure about older ones, but more recent incarnations of Ergopower have an extra notch on the cable exit at the back of the lever body allowing you to route both through the front groove, which is how my road bike is set up. This is, however, mainly because I Didn't Think It Through and cut some of the outer cables too short to use the rear groove route. :oops:

David

Kléber

If you run them on the front then where the cable cross over, underneath the brake hood and the bartape, it leaves a ridge that you might find incomfortable. The groove on the front will only have room for the brake cabling anyway, not big enough for two.

I prefer to run them on the back of the bars around the curve of the bars but when you get to the "tops", run the cable down underneath the bars. This way it is discrete and you don't notice them.

on-yer-bike

I've ended up one on either side at the lever and then they have to run along the bottom as that is where the groove is on FSA compact bars. This means a bump at the side of the bars rather than across the top of brake hood if they had both gone along the front and under.
I don't think FSA bars suit Campag as well as Shimano.

kozzo

Ritchey WCS - I run them front and back without problems. Just question of choice