Pun intended?
Finishing cables..
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Pun intended?
bikingdad90
Guru
I’ve found with crimp cable ends if you give the end a yank with a pair of needle nose pliers it’ll come off without any damage to the cables. Just pinch just below the start of the crimp.
roley poley
Über Member
- Location
- leeds
My front is not snipped to length but coiled about its self to keep it out the way ...keeping the length of a cable to fit the rear....blob of super glue ....never cap your cables too short you may find them useful 
andrew_s
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucester
I tried that once.
After a while, the weight of the coil bouncing up and down caused fatigue, and the cable broke off where it exited the clamp bolt.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
This is what they do here, coil ‘em.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Coiled cables, good god. 
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Coiled cables, good god.
Oh dear. Is that bad?
Well it's a good job I never do it then! (Surreptitiously moves bike so that the cables are out of view)
presta
Guru
Without TyRaps around it, I wouldn't trust that not to come unravelled and get tangled in the wheel.
Randomnerd
Bimbleur
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Coiled. But which way? I prefer clockwise, but unfurl it all and coil counterclockwise every quarter, to prevent the wire getting too much memory.
Or...
I couldn't give a flying eff, because I just crimp and go?
Or...
I couldn't give a flying eff, because I just crimp and go?
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Never had that or seen that happen.
Ian H
Ancient randonneur
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
With suitable trigger warnings to sensitive people like @fossyant....
As an added advantage they give me plenty of length to pull the tension how I want it, and provide a ring pull for emergency re-tensioning on the road.
On brakes I tuck them into the spring:
As @Cycleops said, I've never known them get caught in anything.
As an added advantage they give me plenty of length to pull the tension how I want it, and provide a ring pull for emergency re-tensioning on the road.
On brakes I tuck them into the spring:
As @Cycleops said, I've never known them get caught in anything.
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Freiburg im Breisgau
Forgot to say, it holds if you twist it a minimum if 3 times.
