the evolution of the bicycle

[ayceejay]

Today's bikes are quite different from once upon a time, the materials and the technological advances but one thing has stayed the same and is as big a pain now as ever - that friggin' cable clamp. Surely somebody could come up with an improvement on that, or is it absolutely the only way?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Hydraulic brakes and electronical gears?

 

[mickle]

Cack handed are we?

 

[ayceejay]

Cack handed are we?

Not exactly, for sure I wouldn't pretend to be a mechanical genius on an internet forum but I find this job, perhaps unnecessarily, difficult and thought there might be a simple but effective alternative that no one has bothered to invent yet.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Not exactly, for sure I wouldn't pretend to be a mechanical genius on an internet forum but I find this job, perhaps unnecessarily, difficult and thought there might be a simple but effective alternative that no one has bothered to invent yet.

They have ... it's called your LBS .....

 

[mickle]

What aspect of the traditional cable clamp is it that particularly gets up your goat?

 

[ayceejay]

It's funny I thought that this was a fiddle that must have bothered others, seems I am wrong. I can do it, have done it many times and the more you do it the easier it gets I am not particularly cack handed nor do I want to trek out to a bike shop every time I need a minor adjustment just thought there might be an easier way that's all.
In retrospect it is a much easier task than asking what I thought was a simple question and then dealing with the non answers.
It is the way it is because that's the way it is, eh?

 

[classic33]

Eh!

I've seen housed cables, of the correct length, fittings on either end. Just slot them into place.
Longer barrel adjusters & only on certain models. Not cheap either. Cables were about three times the price of an ordinary cable, that worked with a clamp. Assuming you could find somewhere that sold them, that is.

 

[screenman]

Have you got a third or as some call it a forth hand tool? For not a lot of money they are a useful tool.