Originally Posted by
Doug Fattic
What I think is going on with the rear brake cable is that there is a pully up on the seat lug where the routing from the BB turns to met the rear brake. I can't tell from the picture but I think there is cable tunnel on the other side. At one time I can see the cable stop between the seat stays that is no longer used.
But you can clearly see brake cable stops along the sloping top tube. I think originally the cable was routed in this Z-routing:
At some point it was changed to the pulley wheel arrangement. Like the other poster said, there is a built in cable stop on that pulley bracket. I see one of these on Ebay:
