Originally Posted by
badamsjr
Are these specific to 'flat' bars? I have been kicking around the idea of putting brakes on my trailer, but did not know how I could operate them with single levers. If I could get one for 'drop' bars, that might solve one problem.
Look through tandem suppliers. There was a Dia-Compe 287T (for tandem) made a couple years ago, but I could only find it here:
http://www.gaerlan.com/bikeparts/par...es/brakes.html . Again, the difficulty will be synchronizing two brakes with different lengths of cable.
You could talk to Lightfoot Cycles to see how they set up their trailer brakes:
http://www.lightfootcycles.com/trailers.php