I ran DaVinci cable splitters on my Bomba (to swap between Noodles and Bullmoose bars)... An idea Seth Vidal shared with this forum :) I was able to swap bars, brakes and shifters in literally 5 minutes... pretty cool setup.
Here's how I had mine set up: Shift cables: I put splitters on the front and rear derailleur cables, and located them just below the downtube cable stop/adjusters. Each bar setup contained its own cable stop/adjuster and one half of the splitter. A swap merely required detaching/attaching the cable stop and disconnecting/connecting the DaVinci splitter. Brake cables: I opted for V-brakes, because (for one) they work very well, but make it easy to swap levers (keeping a noodle on each brake cable, and detaching the cable at the brake caliper. So to swap a bar setup, this is the order of steps: Loosen stem bolt Disconnect front and rear brakes at caliper and unroute brake housings/cables Disconnect DaVinci splitters for front and rear derailleurs and unroute deraileur housings/cables Disconnect cable stops/adjusters Pull entire assembly out of headtube (with connected brake and shift cables) Install other set of bars and reconnect brake and shift cables. Getting the initial setup dialed in (with 2 sets of bars/shifters/brakes) is the bigger challenge; doing the swap each time is pretty easy. Good luck! Peace, Bobby On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 2:57:38 PM UTC-4, Tony DeFilippo wrote: > > I was about to put this in Christian's 'Messing with the hunq' thread but > decided it was just enough off topic... > > Question for William, or anyone else who has multiple cockpit's set up > for a single bike I'd be interested in your thoughts for doing that. > Specifcally if you have any tricks for preserving/extending the life of the > cables... when you switch cockpits does the new one have a wholy new set of > cables/housing already installed or are you stripping down the bars and > re-cabling every time? > > I've swapped once on an MB-5 from Flat bars to moustache and then back to > a flat (bulmoose) setup where I left the cables installed on the shifters > but I ended up still replacing 3 of 4 cables by the end of the process. > > Has anyone looked into using the cable disconnects a-la the S&S coupler > bikes as a short cut for cockpit changeout? > > Given the versatility of the Atlantis I'm thinking you could have an > awesome capability to go fat tire - upright bars, not-so-fat tire - drop > bars... or vice versa. But I'd want to be able to easily do it in 30-45 > min tops and not have to buy new cables all the time. > > Tony > > > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
