Hey, everyone brandt moore here, and today. I've got a tip for all you brake riders out there
Specifically anyone who has full upper gyro cables
I've actually figured out a way that lets you run
One inner cable from one side of your gyro all the way up through one side cable
Through your lever back down into the other side without the need of any top pieces on the cable whatsoever
So if you got any extra brake cables laying around you can use them first
I'm gonna run through what I already have set up because I've already got it in here and setup and how it works?
Then I'm Gonna take
this Snafu
Upper Astroglide cable that I have it's the original setup
I'm gonna take it apart and show you how to use one inner cable with it in your dry rail
so let's get into it, so
Obviously, I said that you don't need this piece right here
but I just left it on for strength because I had it so we start here and
For this trick to work you need a gyro that has the set screws in it
Otherwise you would need both ends on there, so once you have a gyro with both set screws
You start you have one cable here. It runs up goes in and then
In the lever here, we've got a barrel adjuster with the top cut off that the cable wraps around it
sorry for the shakiness, but the only way to show this is by recording with my
Camera in my hands then it comes back up through
goes all the way up into here and then tightens into the gyro on the other side
So before we get started here. There's gonna be a couple things that you need before you can do this trick first
You're gonna need some existing dual upper cables. I have Snafu astroglide cables. Just because that's what I always use
Second you need a way to cut the cables. You're gonna need also a gyro that has
Set screws in it without the set screws. This trick is not gonna work, and it's gonna be pointless
then lastly the most important piece is a
Barrel adjuster with the top piece cut off this is how you put the
Cable up into your brake lever here so that it's not pulling on the cable itself
it's pulling on the barrel adjuster to
Get started is pretty simple take your existing cables
and you just need to get everything off of them so that it's just the cable outers itself and
the top piece that your barrel adjuster of your brake lever goes into
Don't lose these pieces though because we're gonna have to put them back on
The most important piece of this is the piece that comes with the snap you asked your glide cable and any other upper cables
This is a piece that your barrel adjuster for your brake lever goes into and again the Snafu astroglide upper cables
Stock do not work with the odyssey mono lever I've got a video showing
How you cut this piece on the top and then stretch it out in order to make the barrel adjuster fit?
Now instead of using these old cables that I have I cut up a new set
The main piece that I needed off of here was an adapter piece for double hungar cables
When it comes to dual upper cables?
Most of the time one cable is going to be shorter than the other and that matters for where you put?
the bottom of this piece on the
Snafu Astroglide cables, it's always the bottom shorter cable
Which goes in the bottom of this piece so from here?
All you have to do is run your cable inner through your cable
Then take your adapter piece with the indent facing towards the cable put that over
Then take your upper cable. You should be the longer one and
Run that the cable through here
To make these cables a little bit easier to put on when actually putting them on the bike
We can take the barrel adjusters off of the cables and screw them into the gyro plate itself
So that's one less thing we've got to worry about
You've got to remember that these cables
One is shorter than the other
So we've got to put the shorter one on the correct side
With these cables the shorter one goes on the right side because that has the least amount of reach to get to the brake lever
You just put it into your barrel adjuster line the cable up
Hold it in place. We're Gonna just tighten the screw so the cable can't go anywhere while we're doing this now
We move up to our brake lever take our bail, or just our out of the brake lever
Put it into this little piece that comes with the cable
Tighten it back into the brake cable or brake lever
From here we can bring the cable through the little slots
And it's okay to have excess here, then we can turn the piece in the barrel adjuster
So they no longer line up, and the cable can't come out. It's okay to have this little loop down here
This is what we'll work with later
Now we can move down to our left side cable
Put it into the barrel adjuster and through the gyro and then we can tighten this one a little bit, too
So that it doesn't go anywhere while we're working with it
So now we've got both of the ends of the cables
tightened into the gyro
so they won't move we can take this loop that was created up here and we can put it into the
Brake lever itself
sometimes it's a little tough to get in there then you take our little barrel adjuster piece we put it on the cable and
When we put it up into the brake lever we have to make sure that the slot in it isn't
Facing the way that the cables are being routed because when you pull on it
and it's facing that way you're just pulling the cable out of the barrel adjuster it has to be facing the opposite direction, so
We put that up in there
And we push the barrel adjuster
up into the lever
Now that we've got that up in there
You won't be able to see it very well, but I'm going to loosen
The screws on the gyro so that the cables are loose
We're gonna take both ends of the cables now, and we're Gonna pull the slack out
Doesn't matter if they're not even on both sides because we're gonna cut off the excess anyways pull them tight as they'll go
tighten one side
And leave this side tight pull up on that
So it takes out any excess cable that we've got in there pull up on the gyro
Then we're gonna tighten the other side down. It's two
Now we'll bring the camera back up to the lever
And see that
Our slack is now gone
what we're gonna do is we're gonna take the cable, and we're gonna push on it to kind of bend it into place A
couple times
Really you need to tighten there tape these cables together
You can see it's working pretty well already
Now if you look down at the gyro now
One side is sitting above the other a little bit
This side over here is hanging lower than this side
That's what we're gonna do is we're gonna loosen the gyro on this side pull at the cable tight again and then tighten
the screw down again
From here you can adjust your barrel adjuster. So that the pool is how you like it?
The cable will bend into place over time now in order to finish
Cut the excess off of our cables
now we've got a gyro upper cable that has
One inner cable that goes from the gyro here up through the cable loops around our barrel adjuster in our brake lever
Comes back down and then tightens to the side of the gyro you got any questions
Asking the comments, whatever. I'll respond to help anybody again
Thanks for watching just
A little final side know you're gonna have to do some adjustment with this when I got done
I noticed again that this side over here was too
Low, so I had to loosen the screw again pull some more cable through and adjust my barrel adjusters so that my cable pulls
Consistent and solid but once you get it set up and this this loop here bends into place and everything settles
Brakes to work great
and
This way you'll no longer have to buy expensive upper cables you can just replace them as yourself with inner cables