Exactly! Ridiculous.

Had to take the square taper bottom bracket out of a Cannondale synapse mechanical disc. To replace the inner cable for the brake. Was the only way. 😡

Oh my goodness, check it ASAP.

But does it make up for the looks?

KZfaq User not for me lol. But I’m a dude with a steel frames. I’m just in it for the ride, not the competition

Same here :)

You haven't read my entire comment, have you? "Ease of maintenance should always come in front of tiny performance gains for anyone who is not a pro racer and not with a team of mechanics behind them." Are you racing? No? Then all those tiny watt savings at speeds you won't be riding at too much anyway are not worth the pain in the ass. Yes? Then by all means, go for whatever makes you faster, because your results are more important than anything else. And guess what: the large majority of road bike users don't race. And you won't be winning any races on a bike with Tiagra and no-name wheels just because you have internal cable routing.

It takes way more time, especially if you want to install it correctly (as @SickBiker demonstrates in this video), it may cause more cable-housing friction and it also takes way more time to replace the cables (and housings). Moreover, in many cases internally routed cable cause a lot of rattling noises (depending on the frame and also the measure taken when installing them). Last, but not least, frames with internal routing cost more simply because they have internal routing. To be honest, internal routing is the source of many problems that Di2 / eTap solves very nicely, but that shouldn't have existed at all in first place. Same happened with Shimano STI levers when they decided to move the shifter cables under the hood. Ultegra 6600 levers had very good shifting, then 6700 were rubbish compared to them and 6800 were as good as. It's only the R8000 levers that actually have a better feel than the old 6600 ones.

I am huge fan of the external cables too! The Press Fit is much lighter though and on a quality frame makes no problems.

​@@cannondany most Press Fit frames I've seen around were creaking like crazy from the BB area. In some cases it's because of poor manufacturing tolerances, in other cases because of improper installation of the BB. In some cases it can be solved, in others you're doomed for life. But none of this happens with the good ol' threaded BB. But I admit, with press fit BB, that also allow you to install cranksets with oversized aluminium spindles, you do easily save a couple hundred grams. As long as you can do it and stay noise-free, then why not. But from what I've seen so far, it's very very rare to have a Press Fit bottom bracket than doesn't end up creaking like crazy.

@Cere EE I love that BBR60 bottom bracket too, over 12.000 km on it and it works as nicely as when it was brand new. By far the best BB I've ever had. And at 77 grams it's not that heavy either.

Mersuharrastaja no, you can’t ( just kidding)

Did you solve it? I have the same exact bike hahah