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- REPLACING A CABLE
- Examine the brake cables for
- fraying. Look carefully at the
- part of the inner wires connected
- into the hand levers. A cable with
- even one broken strand is not
- reliable.
- Replacing a cable is easy. At
- the bike shop you can buy a
- universal cable. It will be long
- enough for any bike, and may have
- two ends on it, one of which will
- fit any bike.
- Using sharp diagonal or wire
- cutters, cut off the end that does
- not fit your bike. Pull the inner
- wire entirely out of the housing
- (sometimes called "casing"). Lay
- the housing against your bike and
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- cut it to the proper length. Make
- sure to allow enough length that
- the handlebars can be turned fully
- to either side.
- Cover the inner wire with
- grease, then slide it into the
- housing. Hook the inner wire into
- the hand lever, then have an
- assistant or a clamp squeeze the
- brake caliper while you pull the
- slack out of the cable wire and
- tighten the anchor bolt.
- Squeeze the hand lever hard,
- then loosen the binding bolt, pull
- more slack out of the inner wire
- and retighten. Fine adjustment is
- made by turning the adjusting
- barrel. Test your work by
- squeezing the hand lever hard. The
- cable should not slip.
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