The rear brake on my wife's road bike seems to suffer from a particularly silly bit of cable routing. The brake caliper is so close to the cable exit on the top tube that it interferes with the brake. Cut the outer too short and it pulls the brake off centre when you apply it. Cut it any longer and it prevents the brake from releasing properly.
Any suggestions for extra flexible brake outer? My only other idea is to stick a spring over the inner between the caliper arms to give the release a bit more oomph to shift the outer. Any other thoughts?
Welcome to the bike mechanic's world of crap designs. From your picture, you look fortunate enough to have removable cable stops in your frame, so i'd recommend drilling them out, and using a full length outer, though this may create another issue of rattling cable.
Get some segmented outer. Jagwire, nokon or similar.
Think you can get extension packs with 20cm or so in. Might need to get creative.
Or you could just do both brakes complete.
Sadly you're only half right. The rear is removable, but the front stop isn't, and I'm not keen to take drill to take a drill to this frame.
I wonder if I could get away with just drilling the back one, and use a section of cable that butts up against the back of the front stop?
Extra flexible brake outer is going to kill your lever feel.
Looks to me like you need to decide between annoyingly misaligned or reduced power on this one - or get very scary accurate at cutting.
Tbh, it’s the sort of thing that would result in me actively trying to not buy that brand going forward...
Full length outer ziptied along top tube
I had the same issue and I-links solved the problem.
drilling the back one, and use a section of cable that butts up against the back of the front stop?
Just done this and it seems to have sorted it quite nicely - thanks for the inspiration coatesy.
Tbh, it’s the sort of thing that would result in me actively trying to not buy that brand going forward…
Cube, FWIW. I'm going to charitably assume it works better on the larger frames.
