Cable guide for bicycles

A cable guide for affixing a brake cable or the like to a tube of a bicycle frame comprising a body including two base portions, each having and upwardly facing surface and having a concave undersurface adapted to seat on the frame tube in spaced-apart relation longitudinally thereof from the other base portion, and each base portion having at least one hole extending therethrough, a ferrule portion extending up from the base portion and adapted to receive the cable, the ferrule portion including in end profile inverted generally U-shaped portions extending upwardly from each base portion and a top connecting portion joining the upper parts of the U-shaped portions, the ferrule portions adapted to receive the cable in substantially parallel relationship to the base portions with the top connecting portion overlying the cable and the base portions underlying it, and a split sleeve portion extending down from each base portion in alignment with the hole and adapted to extend through a hole in the frame tube, and a mandrel adapted to be received through the hole in each base portion and to extend through the sleeve and to expand the legs of the sleeve outwardly into tight engagement with the wall of the hole in the tube and expand the ends of the split sleeve outwardly within the tube, whereby the expanded sleeves retain the guide on the frame tube.