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The problem is the stem/reach isn't it? You'd paradoxically need a longer stem on flat bars no?
You can get cable decouplers for your brakes (SJS have some), they're designed for tandems/S&S/Breakaway/whatever frames, then you shouldn't need to reroute the cables.
I wanted to do the same on my road bike to switch between TT/road cockpit.
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Shout out to the Jtek splitters, Thorn use them daily and they are spot on. One of the most genius bits of kit no one seems to have!
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How's it a problem? I probably wouldn't mind being a bit more upright (using the same stem) when moving to flatbars but it's as easy to swap stem and bars as it is to swap just bars
I hadn't thought of the tandem cable decouplers, thanks!
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This is the 1 bike idea I'm building on for my surly. No where near as seamless as I'm on cable brakes and so they'd need routing and adjusting but that's not too bad. Gears can be sorted by using a dt shifter. You'd need to be fairly careful with hubs though to make sure the rotors are in the same position. A swap over could be done in way under an hour though