Originally Posted by
kipibenkipod
Hi,
I have installed a trekking bar on my wife bike to get the bar closer.
Now I played with the breaks leaver, and found that the best place is on the top corners.
The problem is that the leavers don't work properly in every place on the bar, because when you squeeze them, they will touch the bar.
I'm not happy with this settings, and I'm going to add a cross top inline levers that I will chain to the drop bar levers.
Cheers,
Kfir
I might be misinterpreting this here, but are you adding inline brake levers to a trekking bar? Sounds more like you mean the drop bars, but I'm curious anyway.
My actual question was "has anyone put inline levers on a trekking bar"? The inline levers I've found spec's for all seem to have a clamp for a road handlebar diameter, rather than the thinner flat/trekking bar diameter. I'd like to have the brake levers up on the front of the trekking handlebar, like the ones at
http://sheldonbrown.com/deakins/handlebars.html, but would also like some brakes back on the straight bits of the bars, where most people seem to have the brakes and gear levers.
Broke myself a bit last year, and if I'd had hands on brake levers (rather than on the bar end shifters) I might have come out a bit better, so... I'd like brake levers easily accessible. I commute, "sportily", on this bike.
I don't know how the cable routing would work, but I expect that something could be worked out.
I've searched with google and got nothing so if anyone has suggestions about using inline levers on a trekking bar... Ta!
Cheers, A.