Originally Posted by
vintage cellar
Spence Wolf at Cupertino Bike Shop usually always substituted Weinmann brake levers instead of the Mafacs on drop-bar bikes.
The Mafac levers pull a lot of cable, but they also require a large hand and a lot of hand stremf. Maybe Sonny Lisston would have liked them ?
I'm not sure about later Mafac levers with the full gum hoods - maybe they changed the leverage ?
I go with the drilled Weinmann levers with the built in QR, got them on all my bikes.
I did try the (half hood) Mafac levers but they rattle, don't have QR, and don't fit my hands as nicely.
Edit: I normally operate these with 2 fingers from the hoods, works fine.
