Yes indeed, I was just going to post similar. I once 'just' made a cable reach, brakes worked ok when stationary. Until I turned the bars....because the cable was too short (albeit only just) it applied the brake as I swung the bars to one side.
Have you compared them to anything else?
My solution to this is to cut the outers with a Dremel equipped with a cutting disc, they are very neat. The old school method of cutting the inner cable in the absence of specialist wire cutters is to use 2 hammers and a cold chisel. The bigger hammer is used as an anvil, you place it on its side on the floor, on your leg or on a bench. Place the cable on it and put the chisel at the cut point. A single sharp blow with a steel engineering hammer will give you a clean cut. After some years of this your bigger hammer will start to gain witness marks on its side from the chisel, this marks you out as one of the engineering cognoscenti and is to be preserved. The reason for using the *side* of the hammer is that unlike the front face the side is not hardened and so will not blunt the chisel.
What is 'better@? Is 105 'better' than Tiagra? Is steel better than aluminium?
