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My friends and I are the opposite. We do not trust anyone but our own cable manufacture.


I personally have had two commercial nipples pull through on my Commando (one a throttle and one a rear brake) and will not trust my life to some random person on the other side of the world.


We make the nipple properly with a small and larger hole drilled and then reverse each strand back to create a birds nest in the larger hole.


As Rob said the solder on the birdsnest maintains the larger balled shape so it cannot pull through the smaller hole.


We have raced bikes with cable activated brakes for around 50 years with no issues.


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