Originally Posted by
dijos
you could do the front cable routing thing, but you need to find a stem that it will work on, or a hollow stem bolt that's long enough.
Finding a hollow stem bolt isn't hard. BMX quill stems have been around for a long time.
FSA makes a starnut/topcap that you can route a cable through. There are also several compression-type top caps that are hollow for cable routing.
I would actually prefer a threadless setup for front brake routing. My old setup was a PitA to keep running. I don't know how many quill wedges I broke.
Originally Posted by
rudetay
Seems easy enough to just take the brake off when doing tricks anyway though. That brake lever on the bars would get annoying.
The rear-brake trick is to use enough cable to get at least one barspin. It also nets you style, because you have to reverse the spin to untangle your cable during a line.