What's all this about cable rub protection???

[Raging Squirrel]

I have no idea what it's all about, I presume that the gear and brake cables rub the paint, and you can buy something to stop it? Just noticed this morning the chain has rubbed the frame just underneath it

 

[Rob3rt]

It is exactly what you presume.

You need to buy a chainstay protector (this will stop the chain doing the damage you describe) and some adhesive patches to stick on the frame where the cables rub.

 

[Norm]

I use clear plastic patches to stop cables rubbing the paint, and Lizardskins protectors on the chain stay, although they do get covered in oil and cack back there.

 

[sabian92]

But to be honest unless you keep your bike in a padded room hanging from the ceiling you're going to scratch and ding it anyway. I wouldn't waste the money.

 

[Raging Squirrel]

arghhhhh, wish I'd have known this earlier!!! I have a chainstay protector somewhere, didn't know what it was till I just looked up what that part of the bike is called!

 

[The Brewer]

I noticed on a friends Trek that he has little plastic see through squares where the cables touch the frame

 

[Norm]

You can sell bikes? How strange, that had never occurred to me. Why would anyone want to do that?

 

[MattHB]

You can sell bikes? How strange, that had never occurred to me. Why would anyone want to do that?

I think it's a myth Norm

 

[GrasB]

But to be honest unless you keep your bike in a padded room hanging from the ceiling you're going to scratch and ding it anyway. I wouldn't waste the money.

Cable rub can be terminal. Here's a case on some forks which came off a 'bent (the front mech cable was allowed to contact the fork.

Before people go off about carbon I'll point out that the aluminium crown the carbon is bonded to has been worn away by the cable!

So would you prefer to throw away a 50p bit of tape or £125 worth of forks? BTW it's worth buying a roll of 'helicopter tape', something like this

 

[Raging Squirrel]

ouch!

 

[Rob3rt]

Cable rub can be terminal. Here's a case on some forks which came off a 'bent (the front mech cable was allowed to contact the fork.
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Before people go off about carbon I'll point out that the aluminium crown the carbon is bonded to has been worn away by the cable!

So would you prefer to throw away a 50p bit of tape or £125 worth of forks? BTW it's worth buying a roll of 'helicopter tape', something like this

You beat me to it Was thinking exactly the same thing.

 

[Raging Squirrel]

So would you prefer to throw away a 50p bit of tape or £125 worth of forks? BTW it's worth buying a roll of 'helicopter tape', something like this

I thought you said 50p?

 

[GrasB]

I thought you said 50p?

Yeah sorry, I was exaggerating the cost somewhat. It's 22p for a 1x6" strip of tape

 

[Nebulous]

I have an alloy bike and the cables have rubbed right through the paint and begun to make inroads on the metal, before I bought tape. I've just bought another commuter/ tourer, and guess what? I put on tape as soon as I got it home from the shop.