So I was browsing through the bike shop the other day and noticed a Rocky Mountain Flow that had the front brake line routed through the steerer tube using one of them fancy bolts with the hollow center. Is there an advantage of this? The bike had front and rear brakes, as well as 1, if not 2 shifters. Did they do it just to clear up the cable routing a little?
I can understand why someone would want it if they were running a SS set up with only a rear brake so you can do all the fancy spins and bar spins etc, but what about if you have both brakes, not to mention shifters as well? From a little research, it looks like some people run the front brake through if they have one, and then the back brake just has enough slack in the line for maybe a 360 as long as you spin the bars back around?
The gravity whip cap and GT hollow stem cap are both examples.
-Alex
I can understand why someone would want it if they were running a SS set up with only a rear brake so you can do all the fancy spins and bar spins etc, but what about if you have both brakes, not to mention shifters as well? From a little research, it looks like some people run the front brake through if they have one, and then the back brake just has enough slack in the line for maybe a 360 as long as you spin the bars back around?
The gravity whip cap and GT hollow stem cap are both examples.
-Alex