Cable/hose shims

dav1

Where can I get the plastic shims to fit my brake hoses into the frame bosses? I have looked online and cant seem to find them anywhere.

I dont quite fancy bodging it with electrical tape so would rather do it properly.

Thanks in advance.

omegas

Is this what you are looking for :

http://www.evanscycles.com/product.jsp?style=20737

omegas

or these:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... tnerID=371

dav1

neither of those.

My frame already has the mounts but they are larger then the hose. On my cable brakes there was a reducer that sat in the boss through which the cable was passed so that it fits. The same shim fits my juicy 5 brake hoses but i need two more to put in the bosses below my top tube.

I lost the one i have when i took it off to take with me to my LBS (just pinged somewhere and vanished :? )

Its about 1cm long plastic hollow tube with a slit in the back and some profiling to make it sit snug in the bosses. If the one i have turns up again ill take a photo of it.

OllyUK

Go and ask at your LBS, Im sure they'll have stuff like that in the workshop.

dav1

I did and they suggested beefing up the cable with electrical tape. I will ask my usual (and decent) LBS when I go back to uni if I have no luck but I was hoping to get it sorted sooner really.

Sir HC

Ring up the importer and see what they can do.

I know when the ones on my kona dissapeared, wrung paligap and they sent some FOC.

OllyUK

What type of brakes do you have?

Hope have a ton of spares here:

http://www.hopegb.com/index.php3?voir=HBSPC08&image=
http://www.hopegb.com/mes_r_typ_s_rayon ... che_1.html

dav1

they are avid juicy 5s but as far as i am aware the shims are a standard for most hoses and cable outers regardless of manufacturer.

Ill get on the phone to giant when they reopen their offices next week and see what they can do.