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02-15-21 | 10:42 AM

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merziac

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Originally Posted by bmc5733946

I'm building a sort of Raleigh Sports / city bike thing from my 1974 Schwinn Paramount. This bike came with Weinmann center pull brakes and I'm pretty sure that I can use those with the Weinmann upright style brake levers. I have some Campagnolo side pull brakes available and was wondering if anyone has used them with upright bars and city levers?

Brian

Pic's man, we need pic's, especially when you say Paramount.

The upright levers will also work fine with the centerpulls, they were set up that way on zillions of Schwinn Suburbans, Collegiate's and many, many others.

Here's Ms. merziac's latest acquisition set up just so.

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