I don't know what to do with this. The cable got yanked out when the front wheel was off and the handlebars were twisted the wrong way, so it's the front brake cable. I'm really really really reluctant to mess with anything beyond the wheels and chain on my bike, but I also really don't want to have to bring this to a bike shop. What do I do?
Draw some numbered boxes on a sheet of paper and everything you take off put it in each subsequent box so you can be 100% sure you know the order to reassemble the thing.
oh yeah i mean that's definitely part of why i don't want to fuck with the cables, but that's what I try to do whenever i disassemble anything