Best Gear Cable set for SRAM force/red equip'd bike?

rambino
rambino Posts: 45
edited April 2016 in Workshop
Will this Dura Ace Kit be OK with my all SRAM bike?

Housing needs to be red.

Thanks

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  • svetty
    svetty Posts: 1,904
    rambino wrote:
    Will this Dura Ace Kit be OK with my all SRAM bike?

    Housing needs to be red.

    Thanks

    Best cables going IMO :D
    FFS! Harden up and grow a pair :D
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    No they won't - SRAM use 1.1mm cables, Shimano is 1.2. If you do squeeze them through the shifter they won't work as smoothly as the proper sized ones.

    Buy SRAM cables from Ribble at £1.75 each, use red outers from anywhere.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • svetty
    svetty Posts: 1,904
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    No they won't - SRAM use 1.1mm cables, Shimano is 1.2. If you do squeeze them through the shifter they won't work as smoothly as the proper sized ones.
    Whilst this is techincally true the shimano cables work fine in a number of bikes I maintain......
    FFS! Harden up and grow a pair :D
  • wishitwasallflat
    wishitwasallflat Posts: 2,927
    Svetty wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    No they won't - SRAM use 1.1mm cables, Shimano is 1.2. If you do squeeze them through the shifter they won't work as smoothly as the proper sized ones.
    Whilst this is techincally true the shimano cables work fine in a number of bikes I maintain......

    Yes they do work but the SRAM ones are no more expensive and so I've never understood why folk dont use the 1.1mm ones SRAM STIs were designed for?

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