Recommend Me Some Gear & Brake Cables

[cosmicbike]

The shifting, particularly on the rear when dropping down the cassette, on my Boardman CX Team is becoming noticeably worse of late, so I figure it's time to treat the bike to new cables, it has done 7500 miles now... I plan to do the bar tape at the same time, so will be changing both inners and outers on gears and brakes.
The bike has cross-top levers which I will be retaining.
Equipment wise, SRAM Apex and BB7 mechanical discs.

It's a minefield out there, so appreciate any suggestions.

Ta

 

[biggs682]

i use ones from local Wilkinsons and never had any issues

 

[mjr]

Jagwire stainless slick inners. I was happy enough with £2 standard Jagwire and then someone recommended I try these that cost £4... but hey, it's still not much for such an often-used part. I can't quite bring myself to pay £14 for the Elite Ultra-slick. It's probably better that I don't know what I'm missing

 

[slowmotion]

I use Clark's outers and "no name" stainless inners from eBay.

 

[wisdom]

Found Clark's to be really good value never had any probs with them .Roadie runs on jagwire stainless slick inners and outers again never an issue.

 

[Cycleops]

Just make sure you get brake cables not derailleur cables. Grease the cables.

 

[bpsmith]

Used the Jagwire road pro set last time. Very good full set of inners and outers. About £25, with everything including spacers and ferrules if you need them.

The latter were missing on my set so they sent another and said to dispose of the first set as I felt fit.

 

[cosmicbike]

Cheers folks. Spoilt the bike and have a set of Jagwires on the way

 

[chriscross1966]

All the Jagwire stuff is good, use Road Pro on one of my Brompton and the fabulous but insanely expensive Elite Link on another...given that your old-fashioned penny-penny will only need one kit of each to do it rather than two, the Elite link should set you back around a hundred quid, half what it cost me to do the Brompton.

 

[bpsmith]

What are the Elite Link like, in comparison to the Road Pro?

 

[MontyVeda]

i use ones from local Wilkinsons and never had any issues

same here.

However i suspect the OPs problem may be indexing rather than cables.

 

[chriscross1966]

What are the Elite Link like, in comparison to the Road Pro?

THey're good, but they're not that much better than Road Pro and I only really got them for vanities sake...... You do notice that there is absolutely no compression effect as the calipers bite.... even on Road Pro there is a tiny change in modulation as the cable outer compresses slightly, adn that isn't there on the Links.... They also take an age to make up, a Brompton is fully cabled, there are no cable stops on the frame with runs of bare inner, I ended up using a Raod brake kit, a road gear kit adn two mountain bike brake kits to have enough links, but they do look gorgeous. I can't imagine I'll ever fit another set to a Brompton, though I might consider doing it to my Moulton cos I've got a fair amount of bits left over and there might be enough to do it, but the Bromptons will stick with Road Pro in future

 

[cosmicbike]

same here.

However i suspect the OPs problem may be indexing rather than cables.

That was where I went first but when you can see the cables sticking they're due a change