The trainer bike story gave me unpleasant flashbacks to wrenching. Not much I dreaded more than working on crusty, sweat-soaked trainer rigs (right up there with burner bikes).
I find it ironic that Transition went with the headset cable routing option, since they have been holding out on routing brake lines internally on their people powered bikes.
I recently put together a '22 Chamelelon, and was pretty disappointed by the cable routing. The outgoing frame had really tidy cable routing, with only the dropper going internal. The new frame now routes the brake and shift lines through the top tube, with tiny cable ports which make it a pain to install silencing foam (don't need foam with external!). The cables are still external the rest of the way so it doesn't really help aesthetics, not that I think many Chameleon shoppers care about that.
March 23, 2022, 10:58 a.m. - Taiki
The trainer bike story gave me unpleasant flashbacks to wrenching. Not much I dreaded more than working on crusty, sweat-soaked trainer rigs (right up there with burner bikes). I find it ironic that Transition went with the headset cable routing option, since they have been holding out on routing brake lines internally on their people powered bikes. I recently put together a '22 Chamelelon, and was pretty disappointed by the cable routing. The outgoing frame had really tidy cable routing, with only the dropper going internal. The new frame now routes the brake and shift lines through the top tube, with tiny cable ports which make it a pain to install silencing foam (don't need foam with external!). The cables are still external the rest of the way so it doesn't really help aesthetics, not that I think many Chameleon shoppers care about that.