Mountain Bike Front Brake Cable Routing

Recabling a bike with internal cables can depending on your bike be a bit of a frustrating experience.

Mountain bike front brake cable routing. The brake line just seems kosy you zip it to the front near the top of the arch run it around the tire up front and then snake it around the inside of the fork leg and back to the brake in a way that doesn t reduce tire mud clearence you wouldn t put a brake line on the outside of the fork leg on an enduro motocross motorcycle where the bike is gonna get dropped and the weight of the bike. All secured by zip ties so no hardware to loosen or lose and you can slide the dropper housing to remove the seatpost without messing with anything else. Replacing shifters brake levers cables housings on trek 4300 mountain bike duration. It keeps your front brake cable from getting damaged if you bail too.

I want one for my squishy bike but it has a 1 5 head tube and i ve never seen the hollow bolt setup for 1 5. Some times your bars will spin if you let go of your bike and it can be tough on cables. If your gear cables and brake hoses are fouling one another rattling or looking a mess the first thing to do is to work out the ideal cable routing for your bike. Let me tell you a little story about properly routing the cable for your front disc brake it all started when i purchased my specialized stumpjumper at landry s bicycles i was replacing a stolen bike in the middle of the ncca collegiate racing season which also happened to coincide with the gap between bicycle model years.

The trek stache has almost identical routing the dropper rear brake and rear derailleur cables run down the top of the downtube and go their separate ways below the water bottle mount. Traditional brake levers with exposed cables. But bad brake cable routing is more of a road issue since hydraulics rule the roost for mountain bikes. I have one of these on my dirt jumper.

This information may be used for marketing purposes by trek bicycle its subsidiaries its affiliate trek travel llc and your local dealers. If the handlebar stem is drilled through to act as a cable stop the front brake will need to loop over the bar. Until mountain bikes came on the scene and made granny gears a standard item. How to install housing and cable on a bike with flat.

On a standard road bike that means a rear brake cable running. Luckily for you there are a few ways that you can hack this experience and make re cabling.