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Originally Posted by
gugie
Thanks!
Yes, those are VO levers. Truth be told, they don't match the MAFAC RAIDs really well, they bottom out sooner than I'd like, so there's great modulation, but not great power. I need to experiment with the straddle cable length.
Interesting - I have a set of those as well as their other flat bar levers that I'm using with Racers on my International. I'm going back and forth with them and observing the same thing, I think. I have the straddles pretty short, how are yours?
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