Rear Brake "Rod"

A parts seller in England sells a rear brake rod to replace the cable stating a more positive and effective action. Their unit only works with rearsets, which I have.

The issue is they do not have them and offer no date when these may be available.

My thoughts are, how difficult can this be and what is involved in making this sensable upgrade myself.

Who has this set up? How good does it work? Are photos available?

Just to be clear, this is NOT a MKIII thing.

Heck I gooffed up w/o instrutions or extra parts on universal type Tinkle/Dunstall rear set and ended up with straight shot of the cable for same advantage as the rod. You can eye ball the geometry needed for peddle to pull straight away from the drum lever and figure out your own way.

pete.v said:

My thoughts are, how difficult can this be and what is involved in making this sensable upgrade myself.

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Oh Pete,

Bend up a necessary dogleg in a 1/4" rod, thread the end for the appropriate clevis, feed it through your rear trunion, and use a nut on the backside.

Thanks,guys. Overthinking again, imagine that.

More than one way to skin this direct brake connection kitty. Here's a dust bunny view in era of routine after dark and daylight crashing before they stopped the deer poaching. My trick was rotating the peg cable plate to align cable end holder and lever pull. Lucked out twice - the stock cable was perfect even though same one that wore a notch in Zplate twisted routing and holes in peg plate aligned to ones in Z plate so just fell together one night after frustration I just didn't know how it was supposed to fit and if something missing...

r click, tag view image and expand form there to resolve another oneinarow Peel feature.

I'm guessin' RGM is where you saw the "rod" for rearsets.


I was wondering about that a year or so too. With the rear sets I have on my bike from Clubman Racing, which I believe are made by RGM, the shorter brake pedal means less leverage when you apply it. My rear brake sucks, too put it mildly with the stock cable.

However, one thing to consider while designing a rod set up, is that you will have to readjust the brake every time you adjust the chain(s). As you move the rear wheel back in the swing arm, the brake adjustment will get tighter, and vice versa.