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You're gonna have to unwrap the bars and first feed the inner through, then put the outer over it, push it all the way in the hood, and finally rewrap.
Trying to push the inner trough the outer while wrapped is an unnecessary frustrating endeavour.
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Feed cable into lever bit.
Pull the end out and make a big loop(so the cable comes out towards you then goes back on itself towards the hole).
Feed end into cable outer(it will have a big loop of cable sticking out of the pictured part between the 2 holes).
Feed more cable in so it comes out the other end of the outer cable.
Carefully pull inner cable tight and the lever end should flip around 180 degrees and sort itself out. -
That actually common with those levers, it's nigh on diffcuilt trying to feed it through without taking the bar tape off.
TL:DR get some SRAM S500.
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I'm trying to replace the inner cable on my rear cantilever brake, with Tektro road levers. On my Charge Plug single speed.
The yoke on the rear was too high, which robbed me of mechanical advantage. Also the inner was a bit frayed. So I decided to change it, as a nice little fettle whilst watching the Giro.
My issue is that I can't, for the life of me, guide the new cable into the cable route that goes from the lever to the outer, underneath the bar tape.
If I feed one in from high and right, not going through the cable end housing, I can get it to feed through. But if I use the cable end housing then it just sticks once it's into the little hole inside the lever. Like the angle of attack is not aligned.
Poor photo attached. You can just about make out the hole that the cable goes into, above and behind the cable end housing and the mounting bolt.
If I feed it backwards, from the rear of the bike, through the outer, it comes through just fine,onto the lever.
Any tips?
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