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Old 04-23-12 | 10:27 PM
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2 levers one brake

I want to control my back brake with both of my levers. My Current setup works but I was wondering if there is a manufactured alternative to what I came up with on my own...
Other than the 70$ ish problem solvers thing is there a cheaper alternative?
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Old 04-23-12 | 10:30 PM
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What's controlling your front brake then?
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Old 04-23-12 | 10:54 PM
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Nothing, its just sitting there all lonely like.

But Im not using one.
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Old 04-23-12 | 11:06 PM
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If you ever ride at more than about 10mph you should have your front brake hooked up, so you can actually stop in a reasonable distance.

Why would you ever want both levers operating the rear brake, and nothing operating the front (most important) brake?
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Old 04-23-12 | 11:15 PM
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If you ever ride at more than about 10mph you should have your front brake hooked up, so you can actually stop in a reasonable distance.

Why would you ever want both levers operating the rear brake, and nothing operating the front (most important) brake?
Polo, I should have mentioned that earlier.

I want to be able to switch hit.

Also its my bike if I want to crash and erupt in a glory of flames and explosions that is my own prerogative!
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Old 04-23-12 | 11:28 PM
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If you have a brake bridge, how about mounting one caliper on the front side and one on the rear side, with independent cables going to each. You'd need to adapt some threaded rod to be the main pivot and mounting stud for both brakes. Maybe it could work.

Wouldn't a coaster brake work too?
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Polo, I should have mentioned that earlier.
Ah! Should've said something. My posts were a reaction to all the bizarre questions people come up with. It helps to know what someone's objective is (because often their objective doesn't make sense...) Normally I would strongly advise against not having a front brake, but obviously this is a different situation.

Can you mount two brakes on rear? Disc/cantilever/caliper or some combination like that. What is your setup now?
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Old 04-23-12 | 11:37 PM
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No coasters I gotta backpedal, if I did that I would just do a fixie.

Thats some constructive thinking right there, maybe I will try that someday. I would take a rod from a crap caliper brake and use that since it is threaded on both sides. Or take a metal plate put two holes in it use it as a riser and have a short reach brake with a huge long reach brake surrounding it, you would need to stagger them. But I like trying things like that for fun. Always fin to throw people off into absurdity...

I already have something rigged up. It involves a flex stem without the flex a lower gyro cable and a bunch of disassembled brake parts and some steel plates. It works, and looks nice actually, Just I am having troubles figuring out a way to get them to pull in a straight line, not slightly off kilter...
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Old 04-23-12 | 11:44 PM
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It just rigged up right now so I can test it, I will make it pretty and stream lined later on. But you see where the top and bottom cable connects they sort of pull at a slight angle, I want to fix that...
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The zip ties are just to keep the cable in line, they are not part of making it structurally sound..
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What about using CX interrupter levers?
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Yeah I thought of that, but this I was able to make with parts I had lying around, other than the 10$ gyro cable. Cant you see that mess of pilfered brakes and miscellaneous parts in the background?

If this doesnt work or requires constant adjustment I might go to that...
Or if I can find one of these, if you can point me in the direction of one I would appreciate it..

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I wonder if that Jtek thing is strong enough to use for a brake?
Have you tried running the cable from one lever, through and out of the caliper, back to the other lever? You'll need a long cable and set screw stop at the second lever, but otherwise it's pretty straightforward.

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Why not skip all that at the stem and run the tines of the y from the gyro cable straight to the levers?
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This may work unless you need a fancier lever.

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This probably wouldn't work, but if you had cantilever brakes, could you just run cables from both sides into the pinch bolt of the straddle hanger (assuming your canti uses a straddle hanger of some sort)? Would the cable from the non-pulled lever provide too much resistance? You should be able to get clamp on cable stops with stops on both sides for like $10 (I accidentally got one from Origin8 when I just wanted one stop, but that's what the LBS ordered). Might work.
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Originally Posted by Bianchigirll
This may work unless you need a fancier lever.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BICYCLE-ALLO...item230d4c54ee
He wants to do the opposite, 2 levers, one brake.
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Old 04-24-12 | 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by IthaDan
Why not skip all that at the stem and run the tines of the y from the gyro cable straight to the levers?
This was my first thought but...

The ends of the gyro cable are to small to fit in the holders inside the lever.

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Cut the ends off and use something like a knarp for the lever interface?

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Old 04-24-12 | 12:33 PM
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Maybe Ill try that, also I would have to cut the housing down a bit... The cable is only exposed a inch or so.
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Originally Posted by fietsbob
Some double cable levers are made , then each hand can operate both brakes..
One brake, two levers.

So busy trying to boost your post count that you can't take time to read?
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Old 04-24-12 | 04:53 PM
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So now you're going to connect four brake cables to a polo bike with only a rear brake? Brilliant!

It seems that you read about as well as you write.
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