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davidben:
Oh, so it the reverse of the back brake, have you got pictures of how I should set it up.
I just got the brake lever out and that is different as well.

Sorry for being thick, but never seen these before

 :shocked:

adeshere:
Not normal for the brake lever to be different.

The pots mod, is where you have a hollow stem bolt, so you can pass the front brake cable down through the stem and through the forks, so th ecable comes out where the brake bolt goes through.

You then loop the brake cable back upwards and connect it to the brake.

This is used for freestyle, so you can spin the bars round and round with out the cable getting tied up.

Here is my TA with one

davidben:
Nice bike,

Can the brake still work on a non-freestyler.
How do you get the cable up to the lever?

 :shocked:

pickle:
You have to have a hollow stem bolt (if you haven't you can get ACS ones for about a tenna) then the cable goes down that, out of the forks then loops round and goes into the bottom of the brake rather than the top.  The cable should then just fit into the lever like normal.    :daumenhoch:

davidben:
Can you let me know where I can get one from, been on alansbmx.com, but see one.

 :uglystupid2:

Actually just found this
https://www.extreme-direct.co.uk/bmx/stems/ruption/23852.php

but I will still need to cut the end of the cable off to thread it through the brake, but how does it then connect to the
brake lever when the end is missing?

I have never come across this style of brake before, anyone got a step by step guide.
Losing sleep over it

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