Mine’s close too. Never had an issue... but thanks to your posting this question I waltzed out to look and realized my chain ring has backed off and become quite loose... which is likely the cause of my recent grumblings of ghost shifting in my granny gear
After a bit of routing experimentation today I realized that under the bb is the only way that will allow the slack in the cable the swingarm requires. Running it between the bb and pivot would bind.
After a bit of routing experimentation today I realized that under the bb is the only way that will allow the slack in the cable the swingarm requires. Running it between the bb and pivot would bind.
Side note, I love external routing so much.
Between BB and swingarm is how ours are run on both Murmur and Swoop. Only issue is some paint rub.
While talking cable routing. I'm not owning a Starling but wondered how the brakes are fitted. The best about external routing IMO is that you can swap brakes without having to bleed them. But is that possible on a Starling? The hole between the side plate and the headtube seems rather small to fit a whole caliper through?
If you want to run the cable through that hole you'd have to seperate it from the brake. I have seen a few where they ran the cable outside the gusset (presumably for that reason).
I had thought Starling had just sent a spare pair of adjustable mount plates, but they're actually different geo. It may be hard to see in this pic, but on the lower (unmounted) plate the short side is a bit steeper than on the upper (mounted) plate.