I love suicide levers. I never have missed stopping with them yet.

The more modern "interrupter" levers are much, much better.
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/b...vers-drop.html

About 2/3 of the way down the page. They work by splicing them into the cable itself. The problem with the safety levers is it reduces your brake lever travel by, what, 3/8 of an inch? This reduces your braking power quite a bit. Since the interrupter levers don't do this, they give full-power braking in addition to allowing your regular levers to have full braking. Hmm... awkward phrasing but I am too lazy to rewrite it. Think about adding those instead.