anybody elses cables

dakkar
dakkar Posts: 64
edited February 2010 in The workshop
stretched and usless after last nights frost? I leave my bike in the shed and when I got on it this morning I set off down a hill and realised the cables had stretched so the brakes were usless and couldn't change gears. :shock: luckily not much momentum built up and came to a safe halt. Might have to keep the steed indorrs in future :)

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  • sheffsimon
    sheffsimon Posts: 1,282
    Cant imagine how cables would stretch in frost???

    Must be some other reason I should think.
  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    cold makes metal contract

    more likely moisture in the outers had frozen so the cables couldn't move
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  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    Your cables and/or brake pivots are dirty and wet.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    DesWeller wrote:
    Your cables and/or brake pivots are dirty and wet.
    and were frozen solid?
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    nicklouse wrote:
    DesWeller wrote:
    Your cables and/or brake pivots are dirty and wet.
    and were frozen solid?

    It's happened to me :lol:. When the winter weather hit I briefly had a 3-speed bike instead of a 24-speed, and the glaze of ice on the rims made the brakes somewhat uncertain to say the least...
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