Originally Posted by
maddmaxx
Go with the bar end shifters and a pair of Tektro RL520 brake levers. You can probably do it for under a hundred and everything will work properly.
+1. This is the cost effective way to do it and will still cost WAY less than a set of new brifters. Its hard to even get second hand brifters on eBay for less than this and if you went this route you would need to get items called Travel Agents to match the brake levers to the v-brakes because they don't match.
Anthony