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Clarks die drawn are about as smooth as you need without a coating (coatings are fine so long as you change them regular before they start shedding their load into internal routed areas like under the bb where its a pita to fish it all back out of).
They are 1.1mm od and have the smaller head so work in sram and campag.
. 1mm does make a difference in some of the older sram road shifters (tight around the guide under the hood) but newer ones i don't think are as fussy
And use decent outer, seen a lot of new road bikes come with jag wire lex/lex-sl, its crap, hardens very fast from uv and is far from smooth internally. Some of the aftermarket jag wire is good though
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Looking to replace the brake and gear cables on a SRAM Force 22 bike. Apparently the gear cables should be 1.1mm diameter. Also, apparently coated cables (e.g. with PTFE) are rubbish because the coating degrades and creates friction etc.
What cable sets are there that are decent for SRAM? The SRAM slickwire seems to have some sort of coating.