Originally Posted by
byrd48
Actually, I was in the bike shop the other day and quite a few bikes with drop handlebars have the additional brake levers, but they are not the old school style (suicide levers) where the levers simply connect to the brake handles on the drops, they now are actually a second set of brake levers with their own cables. I think I saw them on a Bianchi. Not sure if it will fit in your price range. One of these days, I do want to look at how they wire those up.
I test rode a Bianchi with these. I really liked them (and the bike in general). I ended up buying a different bike, but I am thinking about getting these levers installed on the bike I did buy. I didn't look at how they were set up all that close but the (not-so-local) LBS said they wouldn't be a problem to put on the bike I bought.