I'm considering a new cockpit on my crosscheck and have been looking at handlebars over at Orangevelo.com. These bars caught my eye. ANd I was thinking: rather than buying new levers, would it be feasible to use the drop bar levers I have currently?

The bars have a 23.8mm section where the levers go, so they are designed for road - i.e. drop - levers. They're a type of moustache bar:

https://www.stanford.edu/~dru/moustache.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porteur_bicycle


that's a stupid place to mount levers on a porteur bike - the load may interfere with operation

https://www.velo-orange.com/diacoinbrle.html


VO recs these

A porteur bar is designed to accept inverse brake levers at the end of the bars as on old Rene Herse porteur bikes. One brakes from the bar ends.

He said using porteur bars, not biulding porteur bike.

so he's "biulding" a mustache bike then?

i am looking for a more upright cockpit, and the porteur bars look like they might work. i would go with the bar end levers, but i want to keep my bar end shifters since i prefer them to down tube shifters. i won't be carrying much on the front (if at all), so i'm not worried about interference there. thanks for the tip in the mustache mounting style

No such animal. You can use Soma urban cross brake levers with your bar end shifter setup or you can go with MTB shifters and the reverse bar levers. There's going to be a trade-off involved in setting up a porteur bike. Can't have it both ways with it.

I don't think that the porteur bars are particularly similar to moustache bars - the bends are very different. The long-ish forward curve on the moustache bar where the levers are mounted just is not there on the porteur. I've been thinking about the porteur too - but the best I've come up with are the conventional "city" levers (https://www.velo-orange.com/cibibrle.html) from V-O. These are available in the right size to mount to road diameter handlebars and cost only $11. Good luck, let us know how your solution works out.

meanwhile is correct ()

If you like them, good. They will work with your road levers. And if what we're telling you here is confusing, you can just call or email velo orange to get the straight answer.