Bicycle Mechanics - which levers work w/ avid road bike disks?

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prevail24
02-07-04, 05:43 PM
I am thinking of puting these on my cross bike with the spicercycles fork or another fork, and I was wondering what lever go with it? The avid site suggests any road lever, but I doubt that.

Anybody know?

BikerRyan
02-07-04, 06:16 PM
I am running Dura Ace STIs on mine but any road lever will work. They are designed for the shorter cable pull that a road lever has as compared to the mountain version which is designed for v brake levers (longer pull)

-Ryan
Rev.Chuck
02-07-04, 09:08 PM
I have set up several of the Avid road disc(road only, the MTB model is very different) with different road brake levers and they all work fine. If you use linear pull brakes (V-brakes) with road levers then you need to use something like a travel agent.

Hunter
02-08-04, 07:39 AM
Avid designs their brakes to be user friendly with most any other manufacturer's levers. Of course canti to linear compatibility was raised by Rev Chuck, and is a valid point.
georgesnatcher
02-08-04, 07:42 AM
The Avids I have on my mtb do not take a lot of pull to get them to engage. I would think regular STI levers would work.
prevail24
02-08-04, 07:48 AM
Thanks guys! Ok that being said, can I hook up the top mounted levers as well as road levers? I would imagine you would need a travel agent for that.
Rev.Chuck
02-08-04, 11:10 AM
You can hook up the top mount brake levers with no problems. Giant even sell their OCR touring set up this way.

The travel agent is really just for linear pull brakes. You could probably get it to fit on a disc caliper but the cable routing would be really odd and you don't need it.