Coloured cable outers

[fuzzywig]

I love coloured cables

 

[DM]

BMX is your friend...

For coloured cables, BMX is your friend:

StolenBMX (owned by Anthony Revell, former UK & Euro champ) does
black, red, orange, pink, white. Presumably available in the U.K.
http://www.stolenbmx.com/pages/products-parts.htm

A quick browse of just 1 shop gives:

Illegal Linear (Gyro friendly) cable
(white, purple, orange, black, brown, red, blue, green)
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=4313

Illegal Teflon-lined
(black, green, red, white, blue)
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=4314

Gusset linear cable
(smoke, pink, white)
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=5295

Nokon teflon inner liner
(black, £2/m)
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=2755

Odyssey linear slick cable
(blue, red, white, black)
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=668

...and pink
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=5121

Proper copper
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=4021

Proper Purple (!)
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=5770

Proper blue, red, black, white
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=667

Proper black, pink
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=2541

Seventies Black, Blue, Red, Pink, Purple, White
http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=4633

This is getting silly... there's flouro yellow and others listed, too...

 

[fuzzywig]

The BMX linear cables are supposed to be crush resistant? Do you think they're the same as gear cables (with the strands as opposed to the spiral)??? Be nice to have a bit of choice on the gear cable front (I know I've got pink ones at the mo') next time...

 

[DM]

The BMX linear cables are supposed to be crush resistant? Do you think they're the same as gear cables (with the strands as opposed to the spiral)...

No idea. But I did wonder the same thing, myself.

I'd like to find a stash of the old, plastic-lined Clarke's Powerglide cables.
Maybe they were a bit thicker cable (or maybe just the teflon liner?), but the brakes on my BMX were amazing once I fitted a pair of Clarke's.

No funky colours or fat BMX cables listed on the current Clarke's site, though.

There was a coloured U.S. BMX cable, too, that always looked really pimpy. They came with a rubber hood that fitted over the brake lever, moto-X style.
Anyone remember what those were called?

 

[fuzzywig]

Clarke's powerglides where OK but the outers were always too fat to put ferrules on, which was a bit dumb :roll: They wouldn't fit through a pots mod hollow bolt either, which used to drive me mad!!

 

[FirstFlight]

We have colored cable housings @ http://www.firstflightbikes.com/brakes-l.htm

Most of it is truly "vintage" so it is not the SIS compression-less stuff.

 

[kanerdog1x1]

rite, most of this bmx stuff is the compression free stuff, so works really well with sti/sis, but is really stiff, so feels funny when you install it on mtb brakes, as its not very flexible. does work tho. it doesnt need to be that flexible on a bmx as the lengths are really long and flowing.