Spa Cycles Elan 725 F+F (aka a cheap sort-of Secan) - steel frame and full carbon fork - 54cm - sparkly - £SOLD

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dme
It looks lovely, but much to small for me.

Idle curiosity:
1. what is the thing on the rear brake bridge? (I realise that you aren't going to put a brake there)
2. the rear derailleur cable seems to run under the head tube rather than in front of it - is that a common approach to routing it? (Currently re-cabling a bike and haven't seen it done that way before).

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trigs in reply to @dme

Idle curiosity very welcome!

1) That's a Brompton rear light bracket that I use to mount a rear dynamo light. It's far from perfect but it works well enough.

2) That cable you're seeing is the wiring for that same rear dynamo light. The derailleur cables are standard and run to stops on the downtube.

Edit: just realised what you mean, and yes that is the rear mech cable running under the head tube... I threw the bike together late one lockdown night and messed up the cable routing there. I was intending to fix it but obviously never got round to it before dismantling the thing. Can't imagining doing it this way would be overly detrimental but it wasn't intentional.

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