Originally Posted by
79pmooney
Consider putting on the cross-country levers; those levers that sit on the tops with clamps on or beside the center sleeve of the bars. You will see no effect on your normal braking and they are first class stoppers (unlike the "extension levers" of cheap bikes of the past). (Tektro and others make them.)
Ben
Only catch, is that interrupter levers limit you to cable-actuated brakes.