Bicycle brake cable system

A bicycle cable system for exerting tension on a brake mechanism at a plurality of force transmission locations comprising:

• a brake lever assembly including a brake lever assembly body, a brake lever mounted for rotation relative to said brake lever assembly body by an axle, a plurality of force transmission cable segments each having an interface end and an opposite force transmission end and an inner, flexible inextensible core element surrounded by an outer, flexible sheath element, and a hollow brake adjuster on said brake lever assembly body, wherein said interface ends of said force transmission cable segments are joined together at said brake assembly, and further comprising a rotary coupler having longitudinally aligned, mutually parallel cable seating sockets into which said outer sheath elements at said interface ends of said force transmission cable segments are seated, and a pair of cable core ducts formed in axial alignment with said cable seating sockets and of a diameter smaller than that of said cable seating sockets, and said rotary coupler is mounted to rotate freely relative to said hollow brake adjuster, thereby permitting said force transmission cable segments to also rotate freely relative to said hollow brake adjuster and said inextensible central core elements of said force transmission cable segments pass through said cable core ducts and beyond said rotary coupler all the way to said brake lever.

A bicycle brake cable system for exerting tension on a brake mechanism comprising:

• a brake lever assembly having a body attachable to a bicycle handlebar and a brake lever rotatably connected to said body, a plurality of force transmission cable segments each having an interface end and an opposite force transmission end, and each having a central, flexible, inextensible core element and a surrounding sheath element within which said core element is movable in longitudinally reciprocal fashion, a hollow, tubular cable segment connector located on said body of said brake lever assembly and having opposing force application and force transmission ends and a common axis of alignment extending therebetween and toward said brake lever, a coupler disposed in said cable segment connector for rotation relative to said cable segment connector about said common axis of alignment and into which said interface ends of said force transmission cable segments extend and said sheath elements are seated in said coupler at a selected axial distance along said common axis of alignment relative to said cable segment connector, and said core elements of said force transmission cable segments extend entirely through both said coupler and said cable segment connector, whereby said brake lever is secured to said core elements at said interface ends of said plurality of force transmission cable segments proximate said force application end of said cable segment connector.