Orbea Licenses Internal Routing Design to Canyon & Plans to Donate Proceeds to Trail Projects
Orbea and Canyon announced yesterday that Canyon has been granted a partial license to use elements of Orbea's patented Inside Line internal shock lockout cable routing design. Orbea will donate the proceeds to trail improvement projects.
The Inside Line design was created in partnership with Fox for Orbea's Oiz cross country bike. The design increases the integration of the shock in the frame, protects the cables and lockout mechanism from dirt, and runs the cable in a straight line from the headtube to the shock itself to minimize friction.
Integrated. The design sends the cable straight from the head tube to the shock.
Canyon currently does internally route the lockout cable on its Lux cross country bike, but doesn't integrate the shock nearly to the extent that the Inside Line design will allow.
Orbea has not announced specifically which trail projects the licensing will benefit, but said that the agreement will allow the Spanish brand to expand its support for trail building.
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If an LBS wants my business they need to adjust their prices. Right now they could go out of business and I would neither know or care as they do not get my custom.
Harsh but sadly true.
Certainly not what the majority of shops do but there are those out there doing their bit to help their local scene.
And yeah, they're not supporting any trail networks.
I'd much rather buy from a DTC brand than help pay for the dude's corvette.
That being said I own a used Banshee and my next new bike will probably be another Banshee, so I'll have to find a shop that sells them.
Yeah, they're not hurting one bit... But it's also the only shop where the mechanics will give/sell me their surplus tools they accumulate if they don't have what I'm looking for otherwise and they sell take off parts for dirt cheap (got a 150$ saddle for 25$, it was brand new except for the time on the fitting stand with the previous owner).
Pros. Looks cleaner
Cons. You have to faff about routing everything sometimes with great difficulty.
You can't easily remove some cables for maintenance.
You find that grit still gets into the ports near the swing arm and bb...this then creates a grinding past you can here rubbing the internal cable guides potentially wearing away at the carbon.
This same grit and the fact the cables are usually pretty taught between the front triangle and rear swinger you can tell when doing a frame service with the shock off just how much extra resistance the suspension is fighting against to not only flex taught cable but push and pull it during suspension compression and extension combined with the grit inside it makes horrible noise, chaffs the cables, wears inside the frame and adds friction to the suspension action.
Finally the rear brake...such a pain in the ass particularly again when you are doing frame pivot maintenance. You can't fully strip and remove the rear swinger without having to remove the hydraulic hose...you end up with the swing arm still attached to the front via the short hydraulic cable..either that or you have to do a rebleed.
Literally the only benefit of internally routed is clean aesthetics, nothing else. It's no good saying dirt is harder to get in. Because it still gets in the ports and you end up in an even worse position of it not easily coming back out and creating a grinding paste inside your £4000 carbon frame.
I'm seriously considering going back to alloy and external routed for my next bike. Though the best compromise so far seems to be those bikes that are semi internal routed with a plastic downtube cover.
But……more proprietary “integration”?? Yay????
Also known as the "hand-directly-to-switch-model".