Looking for cable guides

[dbohemian]

Why don't you like the paragons, just askin?

I have a guess, lets see if I am right.......

[Thylacine Cycles]

I'm channeling Daves brain, and I reckon he reckons that with the Paragons, if the powdercoat is too thick, you can't thread the damn zip-ties through.

And they're expensive, relatively.

[bellman]

So I've found with the paragons is that you need to file them a little bit before the install but if you give them a tap in the center with a screw driver to close them up some that they make a super closed guide that you dont need a zip tie for. YMMV of course.

[vulture]

Click ons, gonna be at the puff this year?

[bellman]

Click ons, gonna be at the puff this year?

Yessir! how bout' you? i'm itching to take a first hand look at that humpback squishy of yours :-)

[edoz]

I'm channeling Daves brain, and I reckon he reckons that with the Paragons, if the powdercoat is too thick, you can't thread the damn zip-ties through.

And they're expensive, relatively.

Yup. Even before powdercoat, they take some mighty small zip ties. As for the ones Pacenti has, I just can't get on board with stamped sheet metal. It's not them, it's me I swear.

[JFW]

I think we've all experienced that the cast ones from Ceeway also requires quite a bit of filing to accept properly sized ties after powder coating. The four alternatives out there right now (afaik) is the cast ones from Ceeway/Nova, CNC'd ones from Paragon, SS plate styles from Pacenti and the "twist" ones from Nova. Out of these four the cast ones comes out as my favorite, but I would love to know if there are other alternatives out there

Truls

[e.Gellie]

thinwall top-tubes and the cast ones are a bad combination: I once made a top-tube into a banana with 3 x 3 lots of the cast ones silver-soldered on. That's why I prefer the plate ones,
Ewen

[EricKeller]

I don't usually build with these, but at one point I bought some from Pacenti just to see what his were like. Seem crushable, is that a real problem?

[steve garro]

anymore i'm trying to convince clients to go with "O's" - it's a custom bike - bleed the line & cut the hose to length - do it right. otherwise, it's the ones from Nova. those things will take a ball-peen hit, no problem! - Garro.