bulk (x 50) supply of V-Brake Lead Pipe 135 Degrees (front)

[Philip Benstead]

When the little tykes let the bars swing around it often rips the noodle out of the front V brake support opening up it's support because the cable run hasn't been addressed. You can often reset this by gently squeezing and fettling the noodle support, but for peace of mind I would swap the front brake arm for the rear.

I pinch the V brake support with a pair of pliers and secure with a cable tie. changing the brake arm around would take too much time.

[rjb]

Here's a good link to read with photos of damage.

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Note some bike ability instructors won't touch these faults as presumably their insurance doesn't cover a catastrophic failure.

[Brucey]

I pinch the V brake support with a pair of pliers and secure with a cable tie. changing the brake arm around would take too much time.

you can;t always expect to fix them like that; if the yoke is deformed at the end, such that it needs to bent near the opening, the only way you can reshape it properly is to clamp something about 8mm thickness inside the yoke as a dolly, before reshaping it, hence my allen key comment. This way you can expect to be able to restore the original shape of the yoke exactly if needs be.

This can be done very quickly, without removing the brake, if you use mole grips to clamp the dolly in place.