Fitting new rear brake cable

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Hi,

I'm fitting some new Frogglegs brakes to my 'cross bike and I've been advised to replace the cables too - I was going to do the rear cable anyway as the outer got full of grit/sand at a race a couple of weeks ago and now sounds dreadful.

I've got the Dura-Ace road brake cable set, and I think I see how to fit it, however one thing I'm not clear on - should I be cutting a section of outer away and fitting ferrules to accommodate the cable run along my top tube? Or do I have the wrong cable set with a full length outer?

My frame is a Kinesis CrossLight 4T and the current set up has an outer from the lever to a a guide on the top tube close to the head tube, then exposed cable to a second guide by the seat tube that then goes back into a run of outer to the break housing stop mounted to the rear seatstays.

Cheers,
Steve

Nuggs

Steve - on your new set, pull the cable out of the inner.

Disconnect your existing cables. Cut the new housings into sections which match the old ones. Then put a ferrule at each end (other than the part which attaches to the brake lever).

Fit the housings to the bike, just the same way as the old ones were. The run along the top tube will just be bare cable (no housing) so if you have some of those little rubber grommets, thread them on to protect the paintwork.

The thread the cable through, hook it up to the brakes, tighten, cut and crimp.

Job done! You'll have some of the housing left over, but that's okay.

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Thanks Nuggs - I was expecting two separate pieces for the rear housing. It seemed almost too obvious and I thought I might be missing something.

Surprisingly I haven't found any particularly good guides to this job, but I guess it is simple.

Cheers,
Steve

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I may have spoken too soon - annoyingly there doesn't seem to be enough ferrules in the pack for front and rear cables.

sicknote

If you are still not sure, have a look on youtube as there are lots of clips on what you are doing