Infrequently seen Chinese brand EXS, in the UK at least, had a stand at Rouleur live staffed by an incredibly effusive member of the team. In between waxing lyrical about the brand's titanium axles for the Specialized Tarmac, its superlight stems, and its new integrated bar-stem combo, I was shown a fork that has the potential to allow a Specialized Aethos, or any round-tubed bike it was claimed, to run the hoses and cables inside the frame entirely.
The fork is primarily aimed at those bikes that already feature some degree of internal cable routing. The Aethos in this hypothetical example is routed internally from the head tube, but externally from there to the bars. If you wished to make a bike that was fully external you would have to get a little handy with a power drill and very much void your warranty.
