Originally Posted by 'nother
If you're going to run v-brakes with "road" levers you need something to compensate for the difference in mechanical advantage. There is a device called a Travel Agent which may help. It's not touchiness that's the problem; it's the fact that you'd need to squeeze twice as hard to stop as you would given the same conditions versus cantis. Not safe unless you have really strong hands.
Actually, the problem is that the road levers pull less cable than moutain (V brake) levers. This makes it easy to squeeze the levers, but you don't get much travel on the V brakes. The Travel Agents double the cable pull and make everything work like they should.
Just pay attention to the directions and position the pulley correctly when you route the cable through the device and they're pretty foolproof.