Brake cable & housing

[Deleted member 121159]

I've offered to change brake cable & housing on a friend's bike, which is an old Raleigh steel bike with a quill stem and downtube shifters, that type of thing. I've only worked on "modern" post-2000 bikes. Will my normal brake cable & housing be fine?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Yes, unchanged all these years.

 

[Paulus]

Indeed. A very simple job.

 

[Deleted member 121159]

Yes, unchanged all these years.

Oops don't let Shimano hear that, otherwise they'll introduce a new star shaped cable end

 

[cyberknight]

Oops don't let Shimano hear that, otherwise they'll introduce a new star shaped cable end

they introduced a new cable end that goes into the shifters

 

[Cycleops]

they introduced a new cable end that goes into the shifters
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So that's what they're for. I've always wondered.