I am converting a mountain bike to drop bars with brifters.

Have a problem with the mountain bike v brakes whereas the brifters do not have enough cable pull to properly activate the v brakes.

Searched the forums to see how others have addressed this but have not found it.

Thinking about a bracket to mount some double pivot side pulls but before manufacturing one myself would like to see how others have tackled this.

Does someone make a good conversion bracket?

Other options I should be considering?

Thank you for your assistance and I hope you have a great day.

Sincerely,
Cranky

The Travel Agent is designed for that situation:
Problem Solvers

Replacing V-brakes with calipers is, sorry, a terrible idea.

Solutions, in my order of preference:
- Switch to cantiliever brakes
- Dump the brifters for V-brake drop-bar brake levers. You will then need to add bar-end or downtube shifters



- Travel agents

There are at least three ways you can make this work:

• You could use a Travel Agent like KZBrian said, and keep your v-brakes.
• You could replace the v-brakes with cantilever brakes, which use the same mounting posts as v-brakes and have a similar cable pull to calipers.
• You could replace the v-brakes with mini-v's, which use a similar cable pull to calipers or cantilevers.

All three methods should work well. Personally, I'd probably pick up some Tektro CR720 cantilever brakes. They're cheap and they're easy to set up. I've got CR720's paired with some Sora 3300 brifters and they work very well.

Another option is the Gevenalle "Eurodax" combination brake and shifter which has the brake pull optimized for V-Brakes:
https://gevenalle.com/product/audax/ The shifters are the same mechanism as bar end or downtube types, which are simple, rugged and easily serviced. You can use your existing brakes and no added complexity like Travel Agents.

That is the route I would take as well but it seems that the OP already has the brifters, so the cantilever or travel agent agent routes are probably the best choice. Mini v brakes would only be an option if the OP is using fairly narrow tires