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TIL a zip tie through your brake cable housing can save a bleed kit headache
Was swapping out old Jagwire cables on my road bike last night and got a kink halfway through the housing, so I threaded a thin zip tie through the whole thing to fish the cable straight and it worked perfectly, has anyone else found random household fixes that beat actual bike tools?
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ryan_stone5d ago
Did you try using a paperclip bent into a hook first? I once spent 20 minutes trying to get a cable through an internally routed frame before I remembered I had a vacuum cleaner with a skinny attachment - taped a string to it and sucked it right through. My workbench looks like a hardware store threw up on it, zip ties, shoelaces, a bent spoke I use as a pick, you name it. Half the time I'm just making stuff up as I go and hoping it holds.
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the_sarah5d ago
Is it really that deep though?
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