cable housing question
#1
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 617
Bikes: soma double cross DC, giant reign
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
cable housing question
I'm installling brakes on my bike for the first time, and I have a question. I am installing avid shorty cantilevers on drop bars, using dia compe brake levers. My problem is that no matter how tight I tape down the cable housing on the bars, the lever pulls the housing through the hole in the lever where the cable runs . I assume this is incorrect. When I pull the brake lever there is friction from the housing going back and forth inside the lever. How do I stop this from happening/ what am I doing wrong?
#2
Senior Member
Shoudln't there be a metallic stopper at the end of the housing, where the cable comes out? Usually that metal thing is bigger than the hole the cable goes through on the break lever, and so it will avoid the problem you're having.
#3
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 617
Bikes: soma double cross DC, giant reign
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
It is plastic, and keeps getting pulled through. Maybe I should get different housing/ metal ends?
#5
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 617
Bikes: soma double cross DC, giant reign
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by operator
Uh. Plastic? Me thinks you are using a plain cable with no ends and using a brake cable cap.
I'm not sure what you mean, could you explain further?
#6
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Medway, MA
Posts: 2,727
Bikes: 2011 Lynskey Sportive, 1988 Cannondale SM400
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 20 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
There should be a metal cap, called a ferrule, that fits over the end of the cable housing where it enters the brake lever (and the cable stops on your frame, etc). Most pre-packaged housing comes with a couple of them. If they are missing, or if you need a specially shaped one (old non-aero brake levers sometimes use one that looks like amushroom with the stem on top of the cap), your LBS should have a drawerful somewhere.
#7
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: St Peters, Missouri
Posts: 30,225
Bikes: Catrike 559 I own some others but they don't get ridden very much.
Mentioned: 16 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1572 Post(s)
Liked 642 Times
in
363 Posts
Originally Posted by pasopia
It is plastic, and keeps getting pulled through. Maybe I should get different housing/ metal ends?
#8
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 617
Bikes: soma double cross DC, giant reign
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
Are you sure that you are using a brake cable and brake cable housing?
Pretty sure, I am using the Delta Aztec Front and Rear Road Brake Cable Set that I bought here
https://aebike.com/page.cfm?PageID=30...ils&sku=CA8421
It came with plastic ferrules, I guess I'll go to my lbs and see if they have any metal ones