All I’ve ever called these things is “These Things” or “Those Things”. Since sitting around thinking of catchy product names is mostly a waste of time, I just picked one.

These Things™ are in-line-cable-adjusters, helpful little problem-solvers for a myriad of oldschool builds, and in particular quite necessary if you are building a drop bar conversion with cantilever brakes. When installed behind vintage thumbies or bar-end shifters, they will remove cable slop and greatly improve shifting feel, as most olde-tyme derailleurs never came with adjusting barrels, i.e. early Huret, Campag, most Suntour, some Shimano, etc.

WTB and others produced these in the 80’s and early 90’s, but in case you didn't notice that was decades ago, so availability is not great. We do know about a few modern solutions, all of which look really dumb on a Prewar Klunk, an ’85 Commando or a '91 Jellybean. So we’ve made These Things™ to be functional yet understated, and to look like they might actually belong on your vintage bicycle.

A unique feature of These Things™ is the solid double-male connection we include, which gives you the option to butt the adjuster directly against a shifter, brake lever or cable stop if you so desire. Not sure we’ve seen that before.

Suitable for brake or shift. Sold as a pair. They offer a full ½” of cable adjustment. Black or silver.