|   Hydro Cable Routing With Reverse Arch Fork | micstew
Jan 13, 2004 5:00 PM | | Alert viewer "Nit Pick" posted a good question about my front brake cable routing in the MTBR gallery section http://gallery.consumerreview.com/mtbr/gallery/files/mtbr_blur.asp
I rather suspected that routing a front brake cable behind the fork was a no-no, but I did it anyway (and so far have not been tossed on my head as a result). The problem is that I have the brakes moved a bit to the center of already narrow bars and so a drastic u-turn is required to go back across the front of the headtube. With a Fox (or other front side arch fork) I would zip the cable to the arch, but with the Manitou there is nothing to grab onto in the front so you are left with a lot of slack banging all over the headtube. What I have done seems to me to be the simplest and most natural routing - assuming it never comes loose and lands in the front tire. If anyone has any suggestions or pictures of preferred methods, I'd sure like to hear/see them. (The wire attached to the brake line in the pics is for the computer.) Thanks much. |
| That's fine. | the real fonseca
Jan 14, 2004 9:08 PM | | Your routing is the simplest and most secure method for that fork, I have mine routed the exact same way on my Black Super Air. Nit must be short for nitwit.
Here's a few pics I posted a while back. I would probably not go through the middle like I did on the Hollowpoint with hydro though, no need.
fonseca "Want to see Avid front cable routing? Post pictures please." 9/25/03 4:01pm
Argh, I can log in to the new forums, but now the old isn't accepting my password! And someone has registered "fons" wtf.
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