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Tha fucksgoinon with the cables?

Well might you ask... The V-brakes are kinda cool, although they did have to recall them...

But those gear cables are nope nope-itty nope.nope.nope. Giant put a fuckwit in charge of them and didn't check his work. I'm not even talking about the aero routing stiffening the steering and potentially messing with no hands riding if it happens to be biased one way.

Oh no, it gets way worse than that. There's a lump of ally sitting in the top tube behind the steerer sort of doing duty as a cable stop, with two bits of bare brake housing hanging from it, which dangle halfway down the downtube.

So you know what brake housing is like - springy. Takes a little bit of effort to bend it, and it weighs something. Guess what's holding this whole mess in place?

Cable tension. You what? Yeah, that's right.

Only worth a damn rocking Di2. Bit heavy, but the ISP one looks pretty tight.