Old 03-18-14, 05:43 PM
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kiltedcelt
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I actually have a plan for how I'm going to work this. Like enigmaT120 I often find the most outboard grip position to be the most comfortable, particularly when the bike is heavily loaded, but as he pointed out, there are no brakes out there. I'm going to use a combo of tri-levers with interrupters. I'll need some shiming on the interrupters and some boring out of the mechanism that holds the tri levers in the bar ends. It should work. It'll just take some fiddling around to get it all together. Also, a lot of folks seem to disparage those interrupter levers but on all the bikes I've set them up on, I've gotten just as strong a braking response from the interrupetrs as with the main brake levers. What a lot of folks don't take into account is the newer style of lever pulls the housing to accuate the cable while the older "turkey leg" levers just moved the main brake lever and thus had a major issue of lack of leverage, hence the other moniker, "suicide lever."
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