Timeline for How to protect brake cable that runs beneath top tube while hanging bike on rack
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| Jun 4, 2019 at 23:35 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @oscilatingcretin the linked question by JohnM is about "could (resting the bike on the brake inner cable) cause brake problems" and your question here is "How to protect brake cable (inner)" . To summarise both questions at once - You won't damage the inner cable, you might scratch your frame, and a very small chance of upsetting your brake by the small increase of cable tension at rest. | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 13:28 | comment | added | oscilatingcretin | @Criggie By "this question", which one are you referring to? Both my question here and the one it links to are about the exact same problem: compression of the brake cable and nothing else. Neither put emphasis -- or say anything at all -- about damage to the frame or pulling the brakes for long periods. I am not really sure what you are referring to at all, sorry. | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 1:33 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @oscilatingcretin this question is about damage to brake cable and implicitly damage to the frame. That question is about whether its a good idea to leave the brake itself pulled on for long periods. | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 0:52 | comment | added | oscilatingcretin | @Criggie Well, I know very little about bikes and their components. I stumbled across the question I linked to in my OP where the answerer with 10 upvotes suggests that pinching the cable could compromise its integrity. Am I correct in saying that you disagree wholeheartedly with the rationale behind their answer? Also, regarding the pinch bolt, I'd assume the cable has to be fastened tightly somewhere, but it seems to make sense that you don't want additional non-functional kinks and compressions along the rest of the line as it could potentially compromise the braking capability. | |
| Jun 3, 2019 at 4:42 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @oscilatingcretin OK consider the pressure and deformation of the inner cable where it is held to the brake by the pinch-bolt. Much much more pressure than your bike's weight will ever put on the inner wire by pressing on bare metal. Even if you were mounted-riding on your bike while it was on the rack, the pressure on that inner cable would be far less than under that pinch bolt. Though it could scratch paint so don't do that :) I think you're overthinking this. +1 for a well-formed question. | |
| Jun 2, 2019 at 12:44 | comment | added | oscilatingcretin | @Criggie I am concerned about the cable itself. It didn't seem like it should be compressed in this way, so I did some googling and found some sources saying it won't adversely affect the braking and others saying that it could. I erred on the side of caution after coming upon the linked question and decided to look for a solution. | |
| Jun 2, 2019 at 12:01 | history | edited | Swifty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2019 at 8:32 | answer | added | Carbon side up | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 2, 2019 at 1:36 | answer | added | Criggie♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 2, 2019 at 1:27 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | Are you worried about the bike's frame and paint, or the cable, or the rack holding the bike? | |
| Jun 1, 2019 at 19:14 | history | edited | Argenti Apparatus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2019 at 19:08 | history | edited | oscilatingcretin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2019 at 18:58 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | Please explain why you think it's a problem. | |
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| Jun 1, 2019 at 18:41 | history | asked | oscilatingcretin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |