There seems to be a strong endorsement for dedicated brake levers designed for the longer cable pull. When I first got this bright idea, Riv had the levers to go with the brakes. Time I quit mulling & got to ordering, the levers were gone but the Travel Agents were still there. No worries, thinks I, saves the hassle of messing with bar tape, shifters, etc. There may well be a pair of levers in my future. I'll never be able to do as nice a job of taping the bars as Riv did when they built the bike.
dougP On Jan 17, 9:48 am, ascpgh <asc....@gmail.com> wrote: > Travel Agents were OEM on our tandem to convert the 105 STI lever pull > to operate the Linear pull brakes. I found them only just more > tolerable than the STI levers, especially the day the left one failed, > I scrapped the STI levers and the Travel Agents, switching to bar-end > shifters and Dia Compe 287-V levers now known as Cane Creek Drop V > (http://www.canecreek.com/component-other?product=drop-v). They are > calibrated to pull the cable at the standard linear-pull rate, opening > up a wider range of brake options from the drops without the converter > doohickies. > > ANDY > Pittsburgh > > On Jan 15, 4:01 pm, dougP <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know if the effort required is the same for V-brakes and > > cantis? Or is one easier to pull than the other?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
