Just received Grand Cru roller hanger and Dia Compe straddle cable. I can't get the straddle cable thru the pulley portion of the roller hanger. It doesn't look like it's physically possible. What I am doing wrong?

By looking at the pictures on Velo Orange's website, it looks like you just unscrew the allen bolt then you can remove the pulley wheel looking thing. Then, put straddle cable though and put the pulley wheel back in place.

However, the pulley wheel and the rest of the roller hanger seems to be one piece of metal. It doesn't look like I can remove the pulley. The direction on VO's page doesn't address how to insert straddle cable into roller hanger either.

I've already emailed them. Hopefully, I can get faster response here.

Thanks!

seems right to me. did you try it?

Yup, unscrew that little allen bolt and the guide wheel drops out.

Neal

Yup I did. No luck so far.

Yup unscrewed the allen bolt. The guide wheel seem to be connected to the roller hanger. I can't separate the two.

OK I got it. Inserted the allen wrench through the whole where the straddle cable goes and applied some leverage to force the guide wheel out!

hooray!

He'll be right back asking how to get the cable length exactly right because there's no margin for error in cable length with those roller jobbies.


You'll see, I give him 15 minutes, max, before he's back.


P.S. - No, I'm not telling the secret method I developed for getting the PERFECT fit first time, every time.

I haven't gotten to that point yet. Will hook up the brakes tomorrow. But, c'mon, spill the secret sauce!