Threading a cable on an internal Frame

[Irshaadmayet]

Hi . So Anybody know how to thread a cable on an S5 Cervelo Road bike. The Routing is internal and I have no idea. Replacing the FD Cable

 

Thanks

[shaper]

Try string and vacuum cleaner, string in one end, vacuum cleaner other end to suck the string through frame. Then tie cable to string and pull back through the frame

[Pulse]

There are several youtube videos on it... You might have to look through a couple of them to find exactly what you are looking for.

 

Here is one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2H17SS0-9uo

[W@nna-BE]

this would have saved me loads of time after my last incident of snapping my cable half way up the frame on my madone - took me a very long time to find the hole..... ha ha (no dirty jokes please)

 

 

Try string and vacuum cleaner, string in one end, vacuum cleaner other end to suck the string through frame. Then tie cable to string and pull back through the frame

 

if available use the existing cable as a 'fish line' to guide the new cable.

[m-squared]

Not an easy task. You may have to swivel the bike in several directions to make the cable fall the right way. I was so glad that my frame had internal routing. It made life so much easier.

 

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[openmind]

Patience and a long hooky piece of stiff wire (cut up and bend a dry cleaner's coat hanger). 

 

Beer and good music helps. 

[Mongoose!]

Internal cable routing = time consuming to replace a cable + always rattles on rough roads but good looking...lol

[Butterbean]

I found using a long single strand from old cable works. Use a long enough piece to completely line the inside of the tube, and stick the new cable in the tube. Then, feed it through until the end is about a cm over the thin wire you lined the tube with. Then, lift that thin wire out, and it should stick up. Important to push and pull the new cable as it lifts towards the hole so you don't miss it, or lose it by it becoming too short. Not the clearest instructions, I know. But it works.

[V12man]

Shimano have a cool tool...

[Thomo]

Sounds like a job for lbs mechanic.

[Eugene Brown]

Shimano have a cool tool...

 Do you have a part number/photo/reference for this "cool tool"?

[V12man]

Do you have a part number/photo/reference for this "cool tool"?

Apologies for the misinformation - Parktool - on the Parktool.com website

 

http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwiv9LiuprHPAhUJBMAKHaJjDLkQFggmMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parktool.com%2Fproduct%2Finternal-cable-routing-kit-ir-1&usg=AFQjCNG9VDxfalcFjKJtNY7MyDy1-PnSlA

[eddy]

Unless you do it regularly, take it to someone who has the magnetic tool that gets put in the one side and picks up a wire shoved in from the other and pulls it through. Or buy your own, £40 on CRC.

 

Easy peasy.

[Skinnyone]

Use a strong magnet - I have one out of an old Mag indoor trainer, place the magnet close to the exit hole in the frame and feed the cable thru, the magnet should pick up the cable - then you can guide it toward the exit...

 

how easy it actually is depends on the frame... 

[the nerd]

Hi . So Anybody know how to thread a cable on an S5 Cervelo Road bike. The Routing is internal and I have no idea. Replacing the FD Cable

 

Thanks

 

Your LBS should have the parktool tool, I know mine does! 

[Spoke101]

I have an S5, and it's one of the easier frames to route. Just remove the plastic cable guide under the BB which makes life a lot easier, then replace it once the cables are routed.