Most elegant solution to add rear brake cabling to a track frame?

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  • Hi,

    I decided to move back from fixed to freewheel as I miss the option to coast, especially with my bike now being finished it glides like on glass - but I obviously can't enjoy that with a fixed setup.

    So, the question is: how to most elegantly add a rear brake without spoiling the looks too much? I am talking in particular about the cables, as it's a track frame without any fixtures for that.

    I found this, but is this the best way? (available everywhere for like 2 quid each, apparently stainless steel and comes in various diameters). ~~I would buy two and have no outer in the middle, like it's standard on many frames. ~~ failed to realize that these are just clamps, not cable stops

  • Hi,

    I would buy two and have no outer in the middle,

    Not sure that will work as you imagine...these are just ties.

  • If you are going to run bare wire in the middle, you really need cable stops, not cable clips. The ones you have pictured are clips for holding the outer cable to the frame and won't work very well with bare wire. They are available,but not quite sure where from. I'll have a look in my clips (various) tin tomorrow and get back to you.

  • They are advertised as proper brake cable stops! reading fail

  • My eyes, my eyes... they tells me the adverts wrong

  • yes, I had assumed something wrong.

    So, how about these? But they are ugly somehow

  • If they are stops, not clips, they should work OK. Where have you seen them advertised?

  • I agree, the sjs ones are fugly!!

  • There's also these nicer ones, but they seem to only come in 1 5/8" size:

  • why do you need to have no cable in the middle, just get the ties, will avoid denting the frame too

  • why do you need to have no cable in the middle, just get the ties, will avoid denting the frame too

    because it would look better

    idea: I can simply get these and solder them nicely in the clamps in the first image above:

  • Just been and looked in my tin and can find loads of clips, but no stops. The only stops I can find are for the seat stay to stop the gear cable. I think flickwg's solution is best.

  • track bike=for track. brakeless.

  • because it would look better

    idea: I can simply get these and solder them nicely in the clamps in the first image above:

    If you do this, you will die at the bottom of the hill

  • There's a tone of pressure/load put on the cable stops. Solder will fail very quickly.

  • wrong word, I meant braze, not solder.

    actually I would like to save the time and simply buy something, are there any nicer ones than the SJS/origin8 on the second image from top, or do I have to live with them?

  • stick these under the top tube, don't bother with having no outer cable in the middle because if it means that you got to have huge silver clamps around the top tube, it would be pretty conspicuous and ugly.

    They are made by BBB and are smaller than they look in the picture.

  • Feed the cable up your sleeve, and out through the bottom of your jacket

    hardly anyone will notice

  • hahaha

  • Equip yourself with:

    • Drill
    • Metal drill-bit of the same diameter as the brake outer
    • Metal punch

    Then simply create an internal cable route.

  • stick these under the top tube, don't bother with having no outer cable in the middle because if it means that you got to have huge silver clamps around the top tube, it would be pretty conspicuous and ugly.

    They are made by BBB and are smaller than they look in the picture.

    these look good, but my frame is all chrome, so a black patch might be more visible than a silver ring (if it's thin, like in the first image)

  • Equip yourself with:

    • Drill
    • Metal drill-bit of the same diameter as the brake outer
    • Metal punch

    Then simply create an internal cable route.

    ha, I would rather drill my head than my frame

  • stick these under the top tube, don't bother with having no outer cable in the middle because if it means that you got to have huge silver clamps around the top tube, it would be pretty conspicuous and ugly.

    They are made by BBB and are smaller than they look in the picture.

    +1

    However, a bit fragile. A friend of mine snapped one off by carrying her bike cyclocross-style up the stairs to my flat.

  • ha, I would rather drill my head than my frame

    as we are talking about

  • Feed the cable up your nose, and out through your bottom

    hardly anyone will notice

    .

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