etap vs cable stops/lugs

pauly69

Slightly frivolous / vain, but having decided to fit etap to an older titanium frame which has all the typical little lugs for cable stops / adjusters - any thoughts on how to avoid these looking plain fugly/pointless when the cables are removed?

Short of getting them removed altogether has anyone found a use for them or filled them with a grommet or something?

Serious question! TIA.

bbrap

Buy a new titanium frame without any added bits. Swap components from old frame, then sell old frame on :P

pauly69

bbrap wrote:

Buy a new titanium frame without any added bits. Swap components from old frame, then sell old frame on :P

Ha, new frame is indeed the longer term plan but having just shelled out a bag of sand for etap it'll have to wait!

Any more? Feel free to share pics of your awful frame appendages living alongside etap

wishitwasallflat

If your not bothered about (potential) faff opening them up again with sugru you could seal them up very neatly.

pauly69

wishitwasallflat wrote:

If your not bothered about (potential) faff opening them up again with sugru you could seal them up very neatly.

Thanks, I found other refs to this sugru stuff on other boards, will check it out

ElectronShepherd

The other option is to turn the whole thing on its head, and make a feature of them. If the frame is painted, you could paint them a contrasting colour, and get some 1.5mm thick steel rod, and run it between two stops as "cable", maybe using Sugru to hold them in place.

paulbnix

I have also just bought Etap.
I was planning on a new frame but the one I fancied didn't fit.
I am fitting it to my Px Pro Carbon and, like you, am wondering what to do with the lugs on the downtube and DS chainstay.
I will probably end up just hacksawing them off - delicately of course.

paulbnix

SRAM Red Etap WiFli is now fitted to my Px Pro Carbon - some might say "gilding the t**d" :-)
Gear changes are wonderfully effortless, quick and precise.
They go click click quite rapidly -1st is the shifter and the 2nd click is the gear change.

However I'm not so sure about the shape of the shifter hoods.
They seem a bit squared off compared to my previous SRAM Apex.
I have inserted a piece of gel bar tape under the hood and that seems to have sorted them.

paul_smith_srcc

pauly69 wrote:

bbrap wrote:

Buy a new titanium frame without any added bits. Swap components from old frame, then sell old frame on :P

Ha, new frame is indeed the longer term plan but having just shelled out a bag of sand for etap it'll have to wait!

Any more? Feel free to share pics of your awful frame appendages living alongside etap

Well if you are looking to sell it on later I'd recommend leaving as it is so that it will retain an appeal to the widest audience