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ah cool, i'll look into those pads.
yea i believe i have the cables setup correctly. the insert in the frame has a little plastic ferrule type thing that fits in it and then the brake cable housing sits in that sans ferrule. the squish seems to come from the cable housing flexing a bit when i brake, mostly in the run from the shifter to the port behind the headtube. seems like it makes rather more sense to have the port on the headtube to me...
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Salmons are for alu, coated cables are seemingly all shit in my experience, decent slick stainless are plenty smooth enough and don't clog everything with shite. If they're not squealing then don't toe them in, get them to contact the rim as squarely as possible although it sounds a bit like internal routing woes. Are all the cable ends of the outer that should be sporting ferrules and are those ferrules sat properly on the outer and into the cable stops going into the frame? Squeeze everything dead hard and see if you can figure out where the squish is coming from, something might be moving or compressing. The rear will feel different without compressionless outer, but should be pretty similar to the front.