Originally Posted by
RoboChrist
59cm with a 56cm top tube.
Yeah it is the racer DIY kit.
So I took the kit from my trash...and the brake cable housing is one piece measuring 1700mm in total including the extensions, and after a quick mock setup it either looks like there is absolutely zero room for error, or I'm out of housing by at least several centimetres if I try to use the remaining available for the front brake. It's very hard to tell...I would do it just for the hell of it to post the results here, but nothing that comes with this kit seems to work well with my setup. Either way it's not looking good, and immediately my thought was that I purchased something for a modern bike with exposed cables, and I was right.
I'm going to see if I can find my old cables to salvage the old end caps and use those instead...
I don't use fancy kits, I just take the old housing, lay the pieces end to end, then measure the whole length, I go to the bike shop with that measurement, they sell by the foot, so I round up to the next full foot and that's what I buy. As for inner cables, they are usually plenty long enough, and even the cheap ones will last the 5 years between replacements.