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Some lbs pay their rent out of the markup they make on cables alone ;)
But seriously, some use utter garbage cable that has similar properties to wet week old spaghetti yet also charge £8 a meter for it. Right now though getting any cable is tricky, has been all year, we've changed about 4 times, settled on elvedes super smooth stuff
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Both felt really plasticky.
I used the gear stuff as I had no other option but the gears were a pain to set up and they really shouldn't be, nice short cage mech on (part of) a 7 speed cassette so they were really clunky and positive last time but felt vague and draggy this time.
I have a friction thumbie on the way so it won't be too big an issue.
Unrelated question, do you deal with a scrap metal dealer at all?
M_V
Cabling my cargo bike today. Runs to rear brake and mech are really long, longer than a standard rear cable, so I bought tandem inner cables online and then spent an inordinate amount of money on 3 meters each of gear and brake outer at my lbs this morning.
The gear outer was such poor quality I decided not to even bother trying to use the brake outer and instead came up with a way to join two bits of compressionless outer together.
The ferrules are a really snug fit inside this bit of stainless tubing that I have. The tubing came from an Ikea trivet by the way, I’ve also built racks and light mounts with it.