AICAN superlight cable system

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mgrennie
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by mgrennie

I only did brake per the thread title, but with included cables and mini i-links, lost 80g over my Yokozuna and SRAM cables.

Performance has been excellent. Everything is super smooth with almost no drag.

I am having a hard time deciding what to do with my wife's bike. She may get a full set, but she only cares if it works or not. Hate to spend more money than I have to, but these seem to work very well...

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lechat
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by lechat

Was browsing eBay USA and came across some Aican Ultralight cable sets. Not quite as light as the Superlights, but an attractive option for the budget minded. $69 shipped for both brake/shift kits.

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by austke

Thx for the replies/tips. Cant wait to get em and put them on.

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photonphyler
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by photonphyler

Heres my solution to the power cordz compatability w/ Aican brake housing. I shimmed a 1.5mm shifter cord with a alligator mini link at the shift/ brake lever and tied off the pwr.cordz at the original Ax Orion 3000 brake binder. Works great not to spongy w/lighter gauge cables & no cable slippage after more than 200mi. The best of both worlds and WW also.
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by dereksmalls

Cool, but you could have put this in the AICAN thread http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=105642

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by NiFTY

Nice job. What is poking out of your levers - the red thingy?
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by theremery

That's the end of the CORDz. A potential solution requiring a less visually odd look would be to mill a donut of alu that scales the end of the shifter cord up to the size of a brake one and mount it inside, normally. Did you do any research on the difference in strength between the 2 types of cordz?
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BobSantini
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by BobSantini

You say 1.5 shifter cord. Should that be 1.2. P'cordz site says 1.2 for shifters.

Just checked. P'cordz offered on their site are 1.7 for brakes and 1.2 for shifters so shifter cable has literally 1/2 the strength and twice the stretch of brake cable.
I don't know if that's significant but it should be of concern.
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photonphyler
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by photonphyler

The red cable nipple & alligator mini link are only exsposed before setup to show the process. They are concealed inside lever after installation no need to mill cable nipple. The 1.5mm pwr cordz are no longer made. Fairwheels has a few nos on closeout. I'm not really shure of exact strength differance between 1.7mm & 1.5mm. I'll leave that for the engineer type's to debate but as stated before lever feel is not spongy at all and brakeing is actually quite good. PP

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by BobSantini

about 78% :)
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by 1415chris

Can we have close up pictures?
Have you had a chance to put the Aican/PC on the scale?

photonphyler
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by photonphyler

-Frt cord & housing 8grams saved 2.3g
- Rear cord &housing 14.5g saved 5.1g
-total cordz & housing 22.5g
- rear cable only trimmed to length 3.1g w/mini i link shim saved .4g
-frt cable 1.7g (no savings w/ shim)
- 54cm tt 11cm stem 40 cm bars c-c .
Total weight savings are over std. Alligator I links & std pwr cordz for brakes 7.8g total.
Sorry no more photos for now.

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by Bianchi10

I'm not an extreme weight wennie but I do what i can and can afford to drop weight. what did you do for your hoods??

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by artray

Is that a photon ? if it is , how do the AX forks ride ?
I have a Photon with Enve 1's
Like to see a photo .

1415chris
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by 1415chris

Thanks for that.
My dlr alu housing plus PC ended up with 32g, but with much bigger frame. That's why I was curious about the weight. Does the weight refer to the full set, with all necessary cable stoppers etc?

I have mini I link on my mtb, which I used to use with PC as well. Can you make tight bends with the Aican as with the mini I link? Probably that would be my only reason to go with Aican, better look.

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