Long centre-pull rear brake cable hangers

None of the rear brake hangers I could get locally were any good - too short, too heavy, too rusty, too ugly.

So I started making some. These are a brass nut drilled and tapped M6x1 (common adjuster thread), silver-soldered to a bit of stainless spoke. To be clear, this is real silver-solder, not the "silver-bearing" stuff you can do with a soldering iron. The nut has holes cross-drilled in it, and the ends of the spoke are bent 90 degrees and soldered into the holes. You mount it in the slot between your seat-clamp ears, it goes around the bolt.

I'll sell these. I think I can get away with mailing them in a thickish letter-sized envelope, so 10 GBP for one, 7 GBP for more than one, and I'll pay postage.

All you get is the hanger, you have to supply your own adjuster. If you want a different thread, or a thinner spoke (needed if your seat-clamp kerf is narrow), or a specific length, just let me know.

Sorry no pic inline, can't figure out how to do that here. Link should work:

https://freeimage.host/i/FVw4v2

Interesting! Constructeur vibes.

A pic of one on a bike would cool.

Try the upload button below the text box, image needs to be not-to-big.

I did hit upload, it let me choose a picture, didn't show in the post. Thanks for the assist...

I have made some variations - sorry, forgot to post about them. The first is a ring half-way along the hanger, to centre the cable outer. The second I used for a 5mm adjuster, the plain nuts did not have enough meat to all the same construction as the 6mm ones. I can do the 6mm in the wingnuts if desired. Prices for the ringed ones are 15 for 1, 10 for more-than-one, and no matter what mix you ask if more than one you get the more-then-one-price. And now I'm going to try uploading an image file...

Well that didn't work. Again.

Is it just me or does this upload button not do anything?

And if it does actually upload a file somewhere, where does it go?

https://freeimage.host/i/KUXePS

Nice, these kinda remind me of the Surly hangers

Convergent invention; I had not seen those for some reason, as soon as I posted elsewhere someone else pointed out what they make. I think their wire is welded to the sides of the threaded section - I did that for the first few but silver soldered, then somebody worried it might not be strong enough so I started cross-drilling and bending the wire 90 at the ends; more work but more secure.