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Would this work for your bodge, instead of pivoting on the seatclamp bolt, use a bolt through the rack mount. It's only about 30mm long from the pivot point
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I don’t think it would work through the rack mounts - i think it would still mean the straddle cable would be way too low. I do wonder if it would work on the seat clamp bolt though - it might clear the end of the top tube - at the moment the surly one I have doesn’t.
I’m very close to giving up on all of this and buying mini-Vs though. My main gripe with them is aesthetics and tyre clearance. I don’t want to use full Vs as I might want to put drops on this at some point (plus my flat bar levers are canti/road pull).
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Ok I’m nearly done with this. I found a cable stop in my bits box and it presented another approach. If I fit this to the seat tube, I can have the cable coming straight out of it and to the straddle. The only thing is that the cable inner would come out of the stop at an angle that would presumably make it rub.
I’m assuming this would eventually fray the cable and ultimately cause fiery death, right?
(Photos are obvs purely mock ups. Cable wouldn’t go straight from stop to canti arm - I just wanted to show the angle)