How To Thread Internal Brake & Gear Cables

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Threading an internal brake or gear cable through your road or mountain bike frame can appear to be a fiddly and time consuming job, but it’s easy when you know how. We’ve covered the rest of the cable installation process - as well as gear and brake setup procedures - in other videos - Replace Road Bike Gear Cable - http://youtu.be/-PBSku77uBI Replace Road Bike Brake Cable - http://youtu.be/h82Qh9k3_mI Replace MTB Gear Cable - http://youtu.be/BxPzoPwnjmw Fix Bike Gears - http://youtu.be/rpBP-UWVkXY

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I have hydraulic brakes though

so worse come to worse you can just use a magnet to help guide it thru?

Sure, it's not so difficult when you have existing cables installed. How about showing installing internal cables on a new bike, where none exist already. That is a fine art, my friends.

not very helpful after the fact

Another good way is to remove the screw on the back derailleur and the one on the shifter, slightly push the cable out of the shifter and cut off the end, remove the front outer casing. Thread your new cable through the shifter and front outer casing and connect the old and new cables together end-to-end with tape and gently pull through the frame.

How would you do this starting from scratch, for example if theres no cables running through already on a new bike build? like how would you thread is through the frame easily to begin with?

That's awesome. Cheers guys

can you just leave the thin pipe inside though? some frames/cable combination have a nasty tendency to rattle when riding.

That was terrific! Bit surprised (but glad however) that you didn't show off the new Park cable routing kit. I really like the tip about using a bit of previous cable housing as the guide. I now think I now know what to use for protecting my cables on the exposed part under the bottom bracket.

Why would you want to cut the cable from the derailer when you can just loosen the screw.

Fantastic video as usual. Many thanks

I wish I had done this in the first place on my Mountain Bike. I managed to get one cable through the frame by trial and error, using magnets and anything I could think of - it took me several hours.
I could never get the other cable for the rear derailleur through, it wouldn't go anywhere near the exit hole at all so I had to just cable tie it to the rear brake hose. It looks very neat and isn't noticeable but I would much prefer both to be internally routed. I won't be able to repeat what's done in this video though, since you need the cable already inside the frame. A job for another day maybe.