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Chinese Carbon Road Bikes => Cyclocross Frames, Wheels & Components => Topic started by: Edny on November 08, 2021, 08:12:49 PM
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How is mechanical Shimano shifting with the full internal routing of cables through bar/stem/headset of the popular Chinese carbon gravel frames. Are there extra kinks that result in poor shifting, or is it only the headache of routing that is of any concern?
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I'm not using a shimano groupset I'm trying to install a sensah srx groupset that my girlfriend was using in her old bike but I'm struggling to route the cables through the stem-frame hole without kink them.
I was recommended to use jagwire compression less outer cables but they are really stiff and when I clamped the stem to the steerer they kinked. So far I trimmed a fair bit of the top spacer of steerer and it improved a lot but unfortunately the outer cables are already kinked.
On the other hand I had a set of cheap Clarks outer cables and they look quite more flexible, this weekend I will try to swap the outer cables for the more flexibles and see how they work.
I attached some pictures as how the cables were routed after the first time I trimmed the steerer spacer and some pictures of how it is now after I removed more material.