Originally Posted by
etothepii
I have a peir of used flop/chop bars. The problem is, I want to use a bar-end brake lever, and I can't. You need about an inch of straight tube for the brake lever to fit. I have contemplated using force to make it fit, but something tells me that would be a bad idea...
What kind of brake lever are you talking about? Hooded road bike levers (Shimano 105s being what I prefer) work just fine on chopped bars in my experience, so long as you've left enough room for them--they fit on the curve of the drops originally, and there was never an inch of straight tube for them there, right?