Originally Posted by
dynaryder
I've seen levers that work with both,but never brakes. Do you remember which model they were?
I can't imagine how. I had a friend do a drop bar conversion where he mixed brifters with V brakes;it worked,sorta,but he had to pull the lever all the way to the bar. I also had a bike come into my clinic where someone had mixed long-pull levers with caliper brakes. I adjusted the brakes as tight as I could(the rim wasn't perfectly true,so there was rubbing),but no matter how hard I pulled the lever,the bike would just slow,not stop. The owner wound up getting the proper levers.
Short-pull levers to long-pull brakes can be fixed with a Problem Solvers pulley,but I can't see how long-pull levers would work with short-pull brakes.
To put a fine point on it,we're talking about brakes here. This is a critical system that should not be cludged. I highly advise the OP to much the levers to the brakes.
I need to slow down and be clearer, and probably read more carefully too. I was talking about flat bar brake levers that can be used for caliper or v-brakes... I definitely agree on the critical nature of braking.
Several of my flat bar brake levers are drilled for v-brakes only, but you can tell by looking at them where to drill for caliper brakes, but after thinking about it, by the time you drill, and drill out a rivet, and put in a new rivet in the new location, it is probably prudent to just buy new levers.
