Do shimano bar end shifters and norma brakes use the same ca

[wyver]

I have shimano bar ends ulterga and some shimano 600 brake elvers. do they use the same ends on the cables and sti? I wanted to get some teflon brake and shifter housing and cables. I run a lot in the rain and things get sluggish sometimes.

[wyver]

but are the brake cables the same for normal shimano brakes and sti brakes? I knw the shifter and brake cables are different of course.

[wyver]

I just wanted to make sure that I did not goof up when I bought the parts. I do enough of that without more (G)

[Lord Licky]

Wassamattah? Don't read so well.

[GratefulNole]

Gear wires are the same format but they've been getting larger. Standard Shimano type gear wires go into Ergo levers with great difficulty and come out in pieces if at all. (We use a different wire for Ergos than for Shimano levers, some shops sand the head smaller).

And French classic gear wires were smaller still. JAmming a modern wire into a Simplex lever will take a good long while to remove.

Numbers-Shimano 4.5mm, Campagnolo 4.0mm, a classic Simplex wire which is still in an n.o.s. lever, about 3.9mm

On top of that, gear wires used to be oriented the other way
- like an MTB brake wire head, only smaller diameter and much thinner . Then there are the Suntour XPress wires , sort of the MTB brake wire head's format but a very small diameter and much wider. Sturmey Archer and Torpedo trigger wires are a long skinny version of what you call a gear wire and the twist-grip wire's heads from them (and from Shimano )were a lot like the Suntour XPress head ,but smaller diameter yet.

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