I'm pretty sure my cables were under the bar tape by 83, it's a long time ago... To be more precise, we drilled the bars beneath the levers and at the centre boss, doing Christ knows what to the structural strength, but I never broke any.
I’ve a set of bars with that ‘feature’. I haven’t died yet.
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I'm pretty sure my cables were under the bar tape by 83, it's a long time ago... To be more precise, we drilled the bars beneath the levers and at the centre boss, doing Christ knows what to the structural strength, but I never broke any.