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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: jedi on April 30, 2008, 07:01 PM

Title: giro query
Post by: jedi on April 30, 2008, 07:01 PM

watching the dew tour i notice that the 2 cables from the giro look like they go straight into the lever.anyone know what giro this is???

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: BrianP on April 30, 2008, 07:18 PM

it's just a regular gyro matey, but with either a dragonfly gemini or a snafu cable

they work a charm  :daumenhoch:

Brian.

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: jedi on April 30, 2008, 07:48 PM

eh???

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: macky on April 30, 2008, 07:53 PM

Yeahh... i got the Fly cable... well better than the regular upper gyro cables!!

it's just two seperate upper gyro cable's connected to a wider nipple!! they work nice!!

http://www.alansbmx.com/product_info.php?cPath=32_55&products_id=888

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: jedi on April 30, 2008, 07:55 PM

do they go into the lever or do you need a joinyupythiny

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: macky on April 30, 2008, 07:59 PM

They go straight to the lever... i think for some of them , you need certain lever's to use em... but i've got
a Fly dragon fly cable to a Odyssey lever, mine works fine!!

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/prod_1014.jpg)

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: jedi on April 30, 2008, 08:02 PM

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  i feel like going back to giro

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: macky on April 30, 2008, 08:07 PM

I used to run em with tech 77 lever's too!! the difference in the brake was unbelievable!!  :daumenhoch:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/bb31/mackymc/l_af47f1052d697bb5d7fe146c53b24f35.jpg)

Well worth try'n em out!!

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: BrianP on April 30, 2008, 08:22 PM

i think that cable in the first pic is specifically for an odyssey modulever, but the theory is fairly similar, and like davemc says, one like his red cable will fit pretty much any new school lever.

i've got a gemini cable on an odyssey monolever in this pic, with dual lower cables too:

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/g1/brian4130/myride/2008-03-02.jpg)

Brian  :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: jedi on April 30, 2008, 08:30 PM

is it more or less powerfull  than a single linear rear brake?

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: macky on April 30, 2008, 08:48 PM

I think if you wanna use a gyro, then these cables make your brake smoother and sharper i think!!

mine were spongy on regular gyro cables...  a lot better now... and im only using the upper dual cables!!

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: subversion on May 01, 2008, 03:10 PM

Odyssey M2 would be the best way to go, formerly 'modulevers'. The lever has a wider housing to accept the dual cable which is reduced to a single short wire to the cable nipple all inside the lever as opposed to the older style splitter half way down the cable :daumenhoch:

http://www.albes.com/browseproducts/ODYSSEY-M2-LEVER-(small--med-or-trigger).html (http://www.albes.com/browseproducts/ODYSSEY-M2-LEVER-(small--med-or-trigger).html)

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: jedi on May 01, 2008, 03:33 PM

 :daumenhoch: :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: TwoBobRob on May 01, 2008, 04:26 PM

I have a Modulever here you could buy from me if the mood takes you  ;)  Hardly used. I'm taking the gyro off my cruiser.  :)

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: jedi on May 01, 2008, 04:33 PM

will let ya know.still looking into it.may require a new frame since i  ahem.........drilled the tabs off

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: TwoBobRob on May 01, 2008, 04:36 PM

Hehehe.....  that'll learn ya   ;D


I bet someone on here has a pair of the removable ones lying around they're not using..... A little bit of cheeky drilling and tapping should see you right?

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: jedi on May 01, 2008, 04:38 PM

mine were supposed to be removable but i may have rounded them off........................................alledgedly

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: TwoBobRob on May 01, 2008, 04:46 PM

If I knew you better I'd call you a meat head......

But I don't, so I won't   :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: jedi on May 01, 2008, 04:47 PM

do it up til it strips,then back off a quarter    :LolLolLolLol: :LolLolLolLol:

Title: Re: giro query
Post by: subversion on May 01, 2008, 07:50 PM

Still using the Modulevers here, great levers :daumenhoch: they're the OE versions with the smaller barrel adjusters than the originals

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c173/subversionBMX/IMG_3523.jpg)



Here's the original version (running a single cable, you just swap out the cable adapter in the lever) The barrel adjusters on these are BEEFY!

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c173/subversionBMX/NokonLever.jpg)