How would you remove the braze-on without damaging the top tube? On Sunday, September 4, 2016, 'Mark in Beacon' via RBW Owners Bunch < rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> The Cheviot rear brake braze-ons are designed for side pulls. Most older > mixtes with side pulls put them on the seat stays, not the mixte stays, > which necessitates an unfortunate routing that leaves the open end of the > cable housing pointing straight up to the elements. Mixtes designed for > center pulls usually have one braze on up at the top like the Cheviot to > accept the housing from the handlebar, and then it is a straight shot to > the cable hanger, no second braze on. For Dia Compes and their ilk, a > special longer straddle cable is needed to get around the seat tube > properly. It looks like the Pauls have one end that gets cut, so it > probably comes long enough. > > I could see why that doodad might be necessary, as the braze-on looks like > it may not be offset enough to let the cable run cleanly into the straddle > hanger, and it would probably pop out without it, and then rub up against > the braze-on. Thought due to the offset, the cable does appear to take a > bit of a curve into the hanger. If you knew you were keeping the bike > forever (or even if not) my tendency might be to remove that lower > braze-on, after first running the cable to the side. Hard to tell from > photo, but might just clear it. > > On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 4:00:09 PM UTC-4, Lungimsam wrote: >> >> >> Wonder why RBW didn't just braze a cylinder on there? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
