Originally Posted by cyccommute

Why? I'm not being facetious either. I see this all the time with people setting up their levers so that the brakes don't even engage until the lever is pulled half way but I really don't understand the thinking behind it. I've ridden a few bikes with that set up and have always found the braking to be uncomfortably slow and the lever perilously close to bottoming out.

All of my brakes are set so the brake engages immediately and if the lever reaches the halfway point the wheel is locked. That's the problem I was having with the BB7 before I found the proper adjustment method. The brake didn't even engage until half way and the levers were almost at the bar before the bike was stopped.