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Wait a second... is that your rear brake cable entering the down tube on the drive side?
I think I’d have had the di2 cable and rear brake cable going into NDS downtube, would be neater no?
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Yeah, that’s the cable for rear brake. It originally had one of the interchangeable cable ports on the other side of the DT. It’s one of the oval shaped jobbies that has inserts you can change over for different cables/wires. You can’t oust these next to the brake cable hole, as they wouldn’t really fit, so it had to go on the NDS. I always found the di2 cable having to go in the other side of the DT pretty ugly, so blanked off the port on the DT and drilled the HT before I repainted it a while back. I would have drilled hole next to the brake cable hole, but that would have fucked the frame as the HSS tubing is so thin. (bike is at work so and don’t have pic that shows the old port to hand)
I got Matt to put the di2 hole next to the brake cable port like you say on the second frame he made me as this is the neatest way to do it without the hassle of trying to do it fully internally.
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I drilled a hole in the head tube of my Talbot for cleaner Di2 wire entry, as the one on the NDS of the down tube always annoyed me.... has been totally fine. Asked Matt before hand and he said it would be fine as head tubes are thick walled.