With a series of magnets guide cable and adapters the tool allows you to feed inner cables hydraulic hose and di2 cable through your frame.
Internal cable routing guide.
Regardless of the option you choose the process of selecting your ew sd50 electric wires is the same.
If your magnet is strong enough it won t be hard to catch the cable and guide it through.
Dealing with internal cable routing.
The hook can be fashioned from a spoke or even a paper clip.
Reproduce spoke lock key2.
A retractable flexible magnet can be inserted into the receiving end of an internal cable run to find the magnetic adapter and easily pull it through.
Speeds the internal frame routing of electric wires shift cable housing brake cable housing and hydraulic tubing on carbon fiber ti and aluminum frames.
Here are our latest and greatest hacks for getting the job done.
Internal cable routing in bike design locates brake cables and derailleur cables or cable housing inside a bike frame.
Bikes with internal cables can be notoriously difficult to service.
Decide which components will go where on your frame.
By john hardwick 25 march 2016.
The lifeline internal cable routing tool takes away the stress of feeding cables through frames.
Internal cable routing is possibly one of the most daunting maintenance tasks of the modern bicycle and with good reason.
Kit includes three plastic coated 250cm cables with attached magnets and unique fittings plus an external guide magnet to speed operation.
These include fully internal fully external and mixed setups.
Pro internal routing tool jagwire s pro internal routing tool simplifies routing through a frame using powerful magnets to safely and easily guide cables housing and e shift wires.
The first sections of derailleur and brake cables to be routed internally were the down tube derailleur cables and rear brake cable top tube.
Internal cable routing serves another purpose which is to protect the cables or wires in the case of electronic components from being snagged or severed in a crash or if the bike falls allowing the cable or wire to strike something.
Many bikes may look clean and simple these days with their tidy lines and hidden cables but the job of replacing those cables can be a nightmare if you re not familiar with some of the tricks used by the pros.
Di2 cable routing options.
Another tactic is to use a small hook to pull the cable out.
I bought this bike for 40 bucks which is next to nothing so i decided to personalize it 1.
This works best when you re fishing for an inner cable.
Internal cable on any bike frame.