Originally Posted by alibi
Are you sure those brake levers will work for this application? The Salsa levers are designed to work as a second set of levers on the tops, and rely on the cable being anchored at the primary brake lever. These top mount cylocross levers work by pushing the housing, not pulling the cable like regular levers. You will need to come up with some way to anchor the cable; it's possible that it will be held by the clamp body, but making that a secure anchor could be an issue.
FALSE!
cross levers can work without having the cable anchored to a "primary lever." they usually have a little ferrule cut out where the cable anchoring nub can fit snuggly. then you just run cable housing the regular way from the other side of the lever and off you go. many fixed gear riders do this setup and it works perfectly.
but from the looks of it, royal already has primary brake levers set up (the TT levers), and his plans will work out just fine. though, i'd like to suggest picking up a set of the tektro 'cross levers as they're less expensive.