As far as I know, there are no conventional v-brakes that are compatible with road levers, without the use of seperate travel agents. There was an oddball brake that was made some time ago, that had a built in cam...my buddy has it on his Co Motion. My XTRs with travel agents, however, work better, are more reliable, and are easier to adjust. If I had it to do again, I would not use the XTRs because the parallelagram mechanism (exclusive to XTR) is made for wide mountain bike seatstay spacing and does not allow enough adjustment. In order to work on my tandem, it needed to have its springs rebent. I'm not sure how this will hold up, with the passage of time. For this reason, I would use any other v-brake.