When you are routing your rear cable, there are only a couple of differences from hooking up a front break cable. The main one is of course that the brake cable comes from the lever and comes to a cable stop, and then it runs bare, and then it comes to another cable stop and then the housing picks up again, back to the brake.
Now this particular bike has this Termon Nokon housing, which is extremely expensive ans it is also very, very nice. It can't burst, because all these pieces are extruded probably. It can flex all around, and it doesn't change the effective cable length. The way any system works is their slotted cable stop. Once you release the brake, you should be able to pop the cable out of the slotted stops.
Now the way this Nokon system works is you are actually building this cable housing onto a piece of plastic tube. This Nokon stuff is a series of little balls, and little cylinders and each cylinder on the end is concave, so it fits on the ball, and that's what allows it to articulate the way it does.
So anytime you are going to put in new rear cable housing and its brand new bike obviously, you are just going to have to kind of bend the housing the way you think it should run, and then cut it. Now with this kind of stiffer, normal brake housing, you might need to make a different curve, and since this is Nokon it's so flexible, and then back here, this is a very tight bend for housing to make here, but you would hold it like that, and see how it is going to come into the brake arm.
With a normal cable system, you got bare cable here. You could slide the housing up this way onto the cable, and you could put some light grease or chain lube onto the cable. This one you never really have to worry about that, because you have this plastic sheet that's completely encasing the cable end to end, you will not have any need for greasing the cable later.
The way you connect the cable, and the way you run the housing, and everything, other than using the cable stops and cutting it, is the same for the front and the rear.
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