Intended for front disc brakes only, the re routing and reverse pull the of opperating arm gives a more direct route and posotive feel for the front brake. It does indeed work, and is very inexpensive to do.
Although this modification can be done on a drum as well, it is not recommended as in time when the shoes become worn the brake can have a tendancy to lock up entirley without the user being able to release them.
The original conversion was carried out by Aurthor Francis,
which of course is now AF Rayspeed.
Quite simply this conversion needs no extra new parts
other then a 10mm nut and a washer, plus the parts you
have already.
Undo your front brake adjuster, you will notice that
when you take the adjusting wheel or nut off, the is
a small trunion that sits in the operating arm put this
to one side for now. Undo the cable from the brake adjuster,
the adjuster should now be free. Take the top hat out
of the housing where the cable goes in,
You can now fit the adjuster to the lugs on the brake
backplate where you just took the top out out of.
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To do this slide the thread bolt part of the
adjuster with the spring already on it, into the
lugs from the back to wards the front, i.e. the
part of the adjuster that takes the cable should
be pointing backwards. On the thread that comes
out, with a suitable washer and a 10mm nyloc nut. |
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Un route the cable as far as where it comes
out from the top of the forks, re position as
in this picture here. It will be best to take
your front brake lever out of the handle bars
at this stage and pull the inner out at least
half of the way. Route the outer cable as shown
in this picture, and trim to suit its new length
using good quality cutters or hacksaw. Fit the
trunion that you took off the adjuster back into
the disc operating arm, then on that hold the
top hat, thread the inner cable back through so
it passes through both these parts, continue until
the cable is pulled all the way through. |
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Finally re clamp the cable in the adjuster to
suit the new shorter length, once you are happy
this is working correctly trim the remaining access
cable to length. |
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All that is left to do now is to check operation
of the disc and to make sure the cable does not
foul or catch any where |