short cables?

[Kitsune06]

Gimme about 2 hrs to finish shift, and 4 hrs to drive... um... and beer money... and I might. Deep breaths! Go to bed. Flossie will be okay.

[Triskeliongirl]

I just changed my cables last week and it is sooooo easy. You just need to buy a good cable cutter, and a cable kit. I paid $10 for a set of durace cables and $30 for the cable cutter. You save $ and you can make them whatever length you want. My pet peave is that they bike shop guys never leave room for a handlebar bag! Wait for the new bars, and then if they need to be re-done, how about doing it yourself. If they left enough room at the ends, you may just need to re-cut the housing and re-thread them.

[velogirl]

Don't forget crimps -- you'll need new crimps, too!

[DebW]

Crimps. Crimps. I hate crimps. Never use crimps. Just leave some extra wire past the anchor so you can trim off the ends later if you need to.

[Pedal Wench]

Don't forget crimps -- you'll need new crimps, too!

And use these!

Colored cable crimps

Sorry about the formerly-bad link - still figuring out how to do linkies. It's fixed now.

[velogirl]

After my couple of pokes with frayed cable I couldn't imagine not crimping. But I'm a woose (how do you spell woose?).

[SadieKate]

I'm a crimper also. You could solder the ends but after being poked and scratched, and having expensive socks ripped, I always use end caps. You can tuck the cable ends away but somehow they always seem to find you anyway.

Hey, PWench, your link doesn't work.

[velogirl]

http://www.ride-this.com/bike-Jagwir...020060020.html