The brake levers are tektro 200a, which I believe is the correct lever.
I do file the ends of the cable housings so that they are flat. However there are 2 things that I can think of being wrong with the housings. 1) the front is too short because I raised my stem after installing the cables. 2) They are new... but they are probably very old and cheap considering where I bought them.
-The calipers were a flub on my part... I measured incorrectly. The pads have do run parallel and centered on the rim surfaces... but just barely. It was pointed out in another thread that maybe the performance is suffering because they are higher than they ought to be.
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