Outer Cabling Cost

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
SJS Cycles has brake 5mm shimano slr 30 mts roll at £29.99, but its grey.

Anywhere else SLR is £ 3.50 a mtr, any other suggestions on black outer, brake and gear
Ebay is £2.61, the best I can do.

[Brucey]

any good?

http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/BSCLUBCH/clarks-universal-brake-cable-housing

BTW they say they are waiting for stock of selcof housing, 50m for the same money.

cheers

[meic]

Chain reaction is often good for things like this.

MTB and Road cables for 99p on this page and some Jagwire by the metre at 1.99.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/brake-cables

Worryingly they dont know the difference between gear and brake but the comments from customers suggest it is actually brake cable. They often sell precut gear cables for £1 which I normally prefer to "by the metre" as you get the endcaps thrown in but that offer isnt on at the present.

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
Thanks.
This is on another tab, same description, colour black, other looks grey "Road" with confusion info..
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/shim ... prod149798

"Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Made to Measure
by Blank12, 6 April 2017, 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
This high quality product has to be one of the handiest you're ever like to come across. It's made to measure in various lengths to suit your needs. Just note, the wording on the Chain Reaction Cycles website describing this product is wrong, but don't worry, the product you will receive is ok, namely a selected length of "M system" lubricated brake outer cable, and a corresponding length of Shimano 1.6mm inner brake cable. The description on the website has the outer brake cable listed as SP41, which actually refers to GEAR cable. The inner cable is wrongly described as being 1.2mm (gear cable), instead of the thicker 1.6mm inner cable which you will correctly receive with your order!
Pros:
impressive quality
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great value
by martysv, 18 April 2017
Not much to say, it´s a brake cable with nice quality to an extraordinary nice price.
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What's the general census on Jagwire and Clarks outers?
Also do you all now go stainless inners?

[meic]

Also do you all now go stainless inners?

I certainly do and didnt buy any of those £1 cable sets for that reason.
Though I can stand galvanised on the front with a good MTB type lever.

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
Yeh, the front you can afford steel as closed run is short.

Used Teflon coated on the gear cables but they frayed at BB and then the cable frays anyway
Won't go coated again, they were left over from a Clarks kit when they were more the fashion.

I use "used" reclaimed cable from skip bikes to maintain my skip trainers but want some quality for my Raleigh and the Koga road.

[meic]

I find that cables are the "weakest" point of a cheaply made bike.
Replacing the cables and oiling the chain transforms most of them, replacing the tyres means less time fixing punctures. If the number that you are dealing with is low enough, you can use cast offs from the good bikes.

[Neilo]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112022321519?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&var=410959609136&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[Gattonero]

OTOH, a good quality brake outer that is correctly installed and does not make any silly sharp bend in frames or handlebars with questionable design, ought to last some very long time especially if wires are replaced when needs to and lubricated.

Buying in bulk gets the prices down dramatically, this is true for most things. I can see that in the sundries for sewing, i.e. zippers in roll cost a fraction of the equivalent fixed length

[Bowedw]

Cyclebasket.com is my preferred supplier for such things but usually make up an order, everything is sent out next day delivery which is costly, but spread over several competitively priced items is not so bad. I also call in to their shop when cycling in that area or when driving past.
With regard to oiling the inner I believe that if the outer has a nylon/polythene lining the it is not recommended, stainless steel cable for me every time and on my winter bike I use the concertina type boot supplied with V brakes over the outer, or just good old electrical tape, this hopefully helps to keep water out of any junction of cable to brakes.
Outer cable caps I obtained from China and for next to nothing cost have enough to last me several lifetimes.

[The utility cyclist]

£15.50 for 30metres
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/30-METRE-ROLL ... SwRoxXn1lr

[NATURAL ANKLING]

Hi,
Cyclebasket yes, have used them before, just seen something I want there, ta.

[Samuel D]

Shimano part number Y80900011 is a box of 40 metres of “Road SLR” brake cable housing. The part number is useful for searching online.

Part number Y80900013 is the same box of 40 metres but of “MTB M-System” housing. No idea what the difference is between this and “Road SLR”.

Part number Y6Y198010 is 10 metres of SP41 shift cable housing. That seems like a useful length for a home mechanic.

[Sweep]

any good?

http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/BSCLUBCH/clarks-universal-brake-cable-housing

BTW they say they are waiting for stock of selcof housing, 50m for the same money.

cheers

Do you have any views on the quality of that brucey?

I ask as I tend to be a bit conservative with cabling- generally usingvshimano, though i have had the odd satisfactory adventure into Fibrax land.

Also wary after some of their cheaper chains.

[Brucey]

I wouldn't like to pass comment on quality not least because it is very much in the eye of the beholder.

The reason for this is not just that the housing may vary in quality of construction, but also that people do different things with it; lube/no lube, and then if you do lube, the type of lube makes a difference, both in whether it makes the cables run smooth, as well as whether it reacts with the liner and turns it soft or not (which varies with the lube and the material used for the liner, as well as the cable tension i.e. brake system in use).

I'd be very surprised if the housing was obviously faulty (coating cracks/comes off prematurely, wire spiral collapses etc) but past that it still might not suit some folk for the reasons above.

cheers