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Buggering arse monkeys! been playing for hours with the gear to get them working keep getting running into various problems:
The problem with the above part has been solved with a nice campag cable guide.
shifters were on backways but wouldn't work when they were the right way round. I had to strip the whole thing apart to get them working again.
Something seriously wrong with the cable routing. I eventual found the problem to be that the bosses on the downtube were rotating under pressure of the shifting which was causing them cables to suffer loads of extra friction. I'll see if they'll work better with a different set of band on bosses. If not I'll have to buy something like this:
Unless of course someone has one of these:
but they seem to be rather like rocking horse poop.
Also the brakes pads seem right at their limit at the back, even though there at the bottom of the slots its almost touching the tyre which isn't good at all.
I also tried the black tape but it just didn't look good so i've bought some grey soft touch instead which seems to fit much better. I will try and take some photos tomorrow if i drys out a bit.