First ride out on my Dyna-tech 1993/94

[daysnways]

brought tail end of last summer, had it's first 50k outing today, i had promised dry miles only, but this is England, so it got a little wet! Had the wheels serviced, brought a san marco saddle and tufo racey tyres and refreshed the handlebar tape, lots of autosol and she has come up a treat, spent around £220 in total.

It the lightest and fastest bike in my arsenal, 30 tooth outback gives me extra i'm not used to! Bit unforgiving but twitchy n fast! love it. This means i can now move on to my knight, and get that slowly ready for action.

 

[daysnways]

....oh only needs dust caps! seen the correct ones on ebay,..but £44 is a bit steep for two small bits of metal! It's a dura-ace first-gen, any decent alternatives apart from the generic cheap plastic chrome effect ones?

 

[midlife]

Lovely, nice to see non aero cables . Sugino / Sakae Royal caps will do being Jap .

 

[daysnways]

Lovely, nice to see non aero cables . Sugino / Sakae Royal caps will do being Jap

tah, yeh first bike with non aeros' kept banging my hands on them, so take a bit of getting used to. thanks for the heads up on the caps. ;-)

 

[Tony Raynor]

Brake cables would be better in front of the handle bars not behind. You shouldn't keep banging them then.

 

[biggs682]

Nice colour and looks tidy enough

 

[midlife]

For a longer stem the cables should be behind to give a smoother curve. Gratuitous shot of my fave rider

 

[Tony Raynor]

Cheers @midlife never seen them behind before

 

[mjr]

Yeah, it's still annoying to put them behind unless you're having braking problems from the tighter bend

 

[midlife]

Lots of bikes from the factory have short stems and the cables can go in front and still be pretty smooth

 

[mjr]

I'm not understanding what stem length has to do with it. Surely it's bar sweep that determines the bend if they're in front?

 

[midlife]

The longer the stem the more the cables want to go behind the bars. Imagine a stem that's 2 feet long and it would be difficult to get the cables to go that far forward

The cables go near the stem in the middle as they pass over to the design of the bars does not make much difference

I'll have s Google for an image with a long stem with the cables underneath. The problem is worse for the front brake if centre pulls

Shaun

 

[mjr]

Centre pull fronts I can see the point.

Is a two foot stem real?

 

[daysnways]

going underneath on my set up would mean a very sharp angle for the cables, they aren't great as is, but look neat enough, not too loopy like some i've seen.

I could see that a shorter stem set-up you could do it nicely in front, but this stem is on the short side for me as is, already thinking of inching the saddlle back on the rails an inch.

Most images i've seen they go behind, i'll get used to it and it's unusual to see nowadays so I'm all for standing out a bit.

I've got another bike to get on the road by summers end that will also have external cables, that all needs cabling from scratch, unlike this one, so I'll bear this in mind when it comes to it.

 

[stevevw]

I use these dust caps on my Dura Ace 1st gen
http://www.velobitz.co.uk/s-h-o-p/4581825389/polished-stainless-steel-crank-covers/7449923
They appear out of stock but they are usually on eBay