My old school suicide levers... the problem was I couldnt get good braking in the rain... They would bottom out. Even if I adjusted my brakes to where I am just touching the drops, Im still only activating the brakes at the 1/2 way point on my suicides.
As for my new touring bike.. I installed some cross levers... they are awesome, and I can fine tune those to where I can get some gooooood hand leverage on them when braking on downhills in the rain with 50 lbs of gear. I absolutely love them for anything but road training/racing