Are my new cables s'posed to be so short that they pull the front wheel to point straight ahead when I lift the front off the ground?

And if I put my new stem on which raises the bars by about an inch, am I gonna need to replace those cables because there is NO slack to take up?

Or is this Knot-Hysteria like the rust issue?

Actually, the new bars will be 4 cm narrower than the bars on it now, so maybe that will give some slack for the higher stem?

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