I like looping it around the drive side of the seatpost in this situation - kind of enlarges the radius of the bend while keeping it close to the seatpost and frame. Use the longest hanger you can find - Surly makes a long one.
Laing Delray Beach FL On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 2:38:50 PM UTC-4 Tom Wyland wrote: > Nathan, > I'm going with canti brakes. I should be running the housing/cables > tonight or tomorrow. I have a set of Velo Orange Zeste cantis that I've > been holding on to. The issue with the rear setup is to have the housing > loop up so it touches the seatpost, I think. Otherwise you'll have the > housing contacting the seatpost lug. I'm not sure how it will look, but > that's how I saw one another person set it up (Blue Lug?). I don't like > how Crust did it as it will rub the paint off of the lug (see their $3800 > Platy). > [image: image.png] > > I'll share photos when I get them set up. > > Tom > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 6:44 PM Nathan F <nathan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It's been nice seeing everyone get their frames, both here and on >> Instagram. Lots of great builds so far and plenty of inspiration for how >> I'll route the rear cantilever on mine. Seems I'm not the only one who >> wanted to use cantis! >> >> Yesterday the front rack came in for mine... now all that's left are the >> rims and frameset! Pending any further delays, I should be riding my >> Platypus in about 5 weeks or so. >> >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/8b96d019-c728-4d8d-a6fb-0219786199b5n%40googlegroups.com.
