Everyone and welcome back to another Tuesday tip where in this video I'm gonna be showing you a way that you can use a single
Inner cable for a dual upper gyro cable setup without needing any ends on the cable
So first glance this might sound a little bit crazy
But I've been using this design myself for a few years now and it's been working just as good as any other
upper gyro cable setup that I've ever used aside from the fact that when these break or when they're about to break it is
Extremely easy to replace one of these and a lot cheaper to just replace the inner
Cable than to buy a whole new set of cables themselves
I've made a couple videos on this design in the past
but the first video was of the first version of these cables and since then I've come up with a few better ways to
Put these cables together and the second video shows just how to put them together and not how to install them
So I'm making this video today showing you guys how to put these cables together in the most up-to-date
Way that I've come up with and how to install them before we get into the video
I want to address a few concerns that people have had in the past about these cables. I
personally think that these cables are
stronger than conventional upper gyro cables that you can get because these
Eliminate one of the extra points that a cable can break on a dual upper gyro cable setup
Normally, what happens is you have two cables that come up through here
which have two ends here and two ends over here this setup eliminates one of those ends and
Replaces it with just a bend in the cable
So rather than having a cable end that can break off you have a bend in the cable. That is just a loop
That is being pulled on and this breaks a lot less often than I experience breaking on
conventional dual upper gyro cable setups
The other thing that I want to address is the fraying on the ends in the gyro
This doesn't have to be this way
You can use end caps for your cables and they won't fray and I've had a couple other ways that I've done
The past but I don't mind the fraying and it doesn't get in the way or poke me or anything like that ever
So I don't have any issues with it. And I think that these cables are
Definitely a viable alternative
To conventional dual up or gyro cables as I've been using them for probably two or three years now
And I've never had them
Catastrophic ly fail to the point where I've crashed or I've been in any type of danger if they break they break
exactly the same way as any other upper gyro cable setup or any other brake cable in general and
Usually you can catch them before they're gonna break just like you can with any other brake cables
so with that being said
Let's jump into how you actually put these cables together and the things that you're going to need
first of all
You're going to need a original
conventional dual upper gyro cable setup because we need to get this piece off of them and
I will take these apart now so I can show you what this piece looks like
This is the piece from a snafu Astroglide dual upper gyro cable as you can see
I've modified it a little bit in order to make it work with the Odyssey mono lever. You might not have to do that
But you'd still need to get ahold of one of these pieces which you can only really get if you buy the entire
cable set
So what I would recommend is buying the cable set using it into one of your cables brakes
Or if you really don't care you can take it apart and just go ahead with the process
So once you have this piece and it works with your brake lever
You're going to keep your cable housings
From your dual gyro cables set up because they're already cut to length and if there's nothing wrong with them
There's no need to replace them
So once you have these two pieces
All you really need from here is a brand new inner
Brake cable at full length, and obviously aside from everything else that we've already listed
You're going to need some cable cutters
I recommend these park tool cable cutters because honestly these things cut through cables like
Nothing I've ever used before and it's not a struggle like it used to be for me
You're also going to need a gyro with set screws in it
That is how you're going to keep your cables in place and how you're going to use them without ends
And with that gyro
You're going to need an Allen wrench set or the proper size allen wrench in order to tighten the screws down
So now we can get into making our cables
The first thing you're going to do is take your brand new long inner cable
You're going to fold it in half and we're going to cut it in half
and
the awesome thing about this is that now we have
Two upper sets of cables from this one inner cable that just costs a couple dollars
rather than having to buy two full sets of upper gyro cables for about ten or twelve
maybe fifteen dollars each
So now we're going to put the side with the end on it aside
because we're going to show this example with the cables that have no ends and the next thing that we're going to do is
We are going to bend this cable in half as well
but what we're going to do is take the end of it and we're going to make sure that the end of this cable is
Overlapped about an inch because when it comes to upper gyro cables one side is longer
than the other because it has to go farther and
We want to account for that so that when we put our housing on here
We don't have uneven lengths of cables sticking out the end and we'd have to work with less room on one side
So we're gonna bend it in half
I'm gonna make sure that we follow it all the way to the bottom and that it stays
overlapped the way we want it to and
We're just gonna bend the cable
So that it stays in half where we have it at?
I'm going to set the bent cable aside for a second to talk about the next piece that we're going to need this piece
Right here is a little bit more
customizable in regards to this setup
This actually is is from a dia Kampf front brake setup
it's the NAR p-- that was used on the
Front brake and I cut the end of it off
basically
What you're going to need here is something that is the same size as the end of a cable
That also has a hole through it
So that we can run our cable through it and you want it to be about the same width as the end of a cable
as well
This part is really
Customizable you can use anything that will work
but I recommend using this piece which I will link in the description below you can get a hold of them and
They're only a couple dollars. So I would recommend using this piece over
Anything else really my first design used something else and it just wasn't as good as this
so once you have your piece you're going to run it on to your cable up to the bend and
From here. What we're going to do is we're going to bend the cable on the top side of it as well
Bend it as much of a 90 as you can
Pliers can help in this case
But you don't have to have them
Basically, what we're doing here is trapping this piece on the cable and bending it so that there is not any
excess in the cable and it has as much of a straight shot through the housing as
Possible and as you can see here, this piece is rounded on one end
I found that it really doesn't matter. Which side is up in your brake lever
So you don't have to worry about that too much
So once you get the bend into the end of your cable
You're pretty much done with the modifying portion of things
Now you can grab the end piece that came with your original
dual upper gyro cables and you'll want to pay attention to which side of this piece has the
Indent in it because this is to seat into your housing
So you want to make sure that you put it on to the cable on the side that the housing is going to come from?
And you also want to pay attention to because the bottom hole on
this is the side that the short brake cable goes to so this is the bottom and you want make sure that you put the
Shorter side through it. So we've got our cables here
I'm gonna take the short end of the cable and put it into the gyro piece
run it up onto our setup and now we are ready to go down and
Install this because everything from here is just installation. There's no more modification necessary
so let's move down into the brake setup and show you guys how to
install this
First thing that we're going to need is our barrel adjuster for our brake lever if we have one we're going to put it onto
The top part of our cable and then slide over the piece that came with our original upper gyro cables
Over the barrel adjuster this piece as you can see is a little bit modified here
I had to do that to make it work with the Odyssey mono lever
And I've got a video which I will put in an info card on the screen right here as well as in the description
On how you can do that, too
And then from here
What we're going to do is slide it down a little bit to make our cables a little bit more
flexible and then we're going to put our piece that goes into the end of the brake lever into
The brake lever just like so and then we're going to slide our barrel adjuster in piece and back up and tighten it
into the brake lever
And
then from here we can grab our cable housings and then we can put the inner cables into the
corresponding sides
paying attention that one side is shorter than the other so we put the top part of the cable into the long side and
Then we put the bottom part of the cable into the short side
Then we see everything where it should go
make sure the barrel adjuster is tight and then we can put the other ends of our cables into the barrel adjusters that
screw into our gyro plate and now we're ready to move down to the gyro and
Install everything down here
Once you get the cables through the barrel adjusters that are screwed into your gyro plate you're ready to start adjusting your barrel adjusters
So that whenever get your brake pull finished, there's not too much excess above or below the gyro
This is something that we want to calculate forward before we tighten down these set screws in our gyro
So we don't have to hurt the cable in one place
Loosen it and then readjust and tighten it in another what we want to think about. Is that if there's too much
excess below the gyro in the lower cables
We won't be able to engage our brakes because when we pull the brakes the gyro will hit the gyro plate before
The brake pad engages with the rim and that's not something that we want
We also want to pay attention to the upper cables because if there's too much
Excess above the gyro in these upper cables. It means that whenever we let go of our brakes
There's too much excess and it doesn't let the brake lever
Return fully and that also means that whenever we pull our brakes we have to pull that excess out
Before we actually do anything with the gyro and before we can make our brakes engage
So we want to compensate for this and calculate for it
which I've done already and this is something that you can only
do with practice and tinkering so you'll have to mess with it and figure it out for yourself just be aware that it is an
issue and something to think about and what I like to do here is pull on my cable to make sure that the excess is
Out of it lift up just a little bit on the gyro
Push in on the cable so that it's fully seated in the gyro and then tighten the screw down
We can test it a little bit to make sure that we aren't bottoming out our gyro on the gyro plate
Which we are not we may have to lower these barrel adjusters just a little bit to make that distance a little bit further
Whenever the brake cable
inevitably stretches, but from here, all we need to do is bend our cables up and
Then we can cut off our excess and make sure everything is tight and dialed the way that we want it
And that's gonna do it for this video about how you can use a single cable enter for a dual upper gyro cable setup
Hopefully this video was easy enough to follow for anyone who might want to try out this setup if you guys do try it out
I would love to hear from you in the comments down below
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