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First up was meant to be working out what size seatpost it is, but the battery on my vernier calipers has died so that will have to wait for another day.
Next up is getting my head round how I'm going to do brakes and cables. For my sins I have decided to go canti and bought a pair of Dia Compe DC980s, which look lovely.
So I need cable hangers. Being cantis, nothing is simple. On the front it would have originally had a stem with a cable stop drilled but I don't have one, and don't trust myself to drill one. Fork-mounted is out of the picture as I need the hole on the fork crown for the front rack.
Headset mounted is also unfortunately out of the picture as there is not enough spare thread/steerer height in the stack.
This stumped me for a bit until I found out about Nitto AS 11, a hanger which clamps on the quill stem itself. Internet photo below, hopefully I have managed to order the right thing and will get one of these through the post soon.
I need a rear hanger too. This would be simple if it wasn't a mixte, but it is, so the cable routing is of course weird. @Psy made excellent use of a V brake noodle, but I've gone for a pulley hanger instead which - again assuming I've managed to buy the right size for the seatpost binder lugs, should be neat. Not many of these around but as usual, eBay have got the goods. Photo of how it's meant to work below.
Obviously I could have bought a set of V brakes for less than the hangers cost...
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