[QUOTE 4612489, member: 9609"]So it is a common sort of design fault rather than me wrongly aligning the cable at some time in the past. [/QUOTE]
Indeed it is. Cables move when you operate them and paint wears when something rubs against it. This has been common knowledge since both of these were invented, yet frame designers and manufacturers ignore it completely. If the cycling press did it's job when reviewing bikes and highlighted such glaring contempt shown by manufacturers to their customers, instead of blindly repeating the "Stiffer than last year" crap in the brochures the problem would disappear overnight.