[Jesus]

I have never tried this before, nor do I know anyone who has.

I got a road bike on trade in and I am gonna keep it for myself. But with all my back and neck problems, I can't be hunched over. It just hurst too much.

So I was thinking of putting a high rise stem and some riser bars and MTB shifters and V Brake levers. Just to bring everything up and back.

Will V Brake levers work with road brakes?

BTW it's a '99 Cannondale R600.

 

[Sideways]

It will feel like total ass.
I road with V-levers when they first came out with a rear canti cuz I could only afford a front brake upgrade at the time....it was aweful.
Road brakes have even less cable pull.

 

[Serial Midget]

Just rotate the drop bars up - ghetto style...

 

[James]

Originally posted by Jesus
I have never tried this before, nor do I know anyone who has.

I got a road bike on trade in and I am gonna keep it for myself. But with all my back and neck problems, I can't be hunched over. It just hurst too much.

So I was thinking of putting a high rise stem and some riser bars and MTB shifters and V Brake levers. Just to bring everything up and back.

Will V Brake levers work with road brakes?

BTW it's a '99 Cannondale R600.

Nope. V- brakes pull much more cable than regular cantis/road brakes. If you can find a set of older canti levers, you should be good to go.

Cheers,

J@G

 

[recidivist]

If you want to spend a coupla bucks, one option would be the newish Shimano's BL-R440 "flat bar" levers. They made them for all the new 'comfort' bikes -- you know, road frames with flat bars -- that Lemond, Marin, etc are making. They look like:

Old canti levers might work, but maybe not so hot, better than V-levers but still not so hot.

Or if you can find some Avid levers with speed dial, you could always speed-dial it way down to low cable pull. Hmm... that's actually a good option...

 

[FlipSide]

I did the same thing on my old road bike.

I use a canti brake lever for the rear and a V for the front. The V is an old STX-RC with an adjustment for the amount of cable it pulls. It's unrideable in the setting where it pulls the most cable but it's totally OK in the other setting.
The canti brake lever is better, but the V is alright (read: not dangerous)

 

[Jesus]

Originally posted by recidivist
If you want to spend a coupla bucks, one option would be the newish Shimano's BL-R440 "flat bar" levers. They made them for all the new 'comfort' bikes -- you know, road frames with flat bars -- that Lemond, Marin, etc are making. They look like:

Old canti levers might work, but maybe not so hot, better than V-levers but still not so hot.

Or if you can find some Avid levers with speed dial, you could always speed-dial it way down to low cable pull. Hmm... that's actually a good option...

Well I guess that's what i'll get.

Thanks!

 

[NastySid]

Got a cpl of steel roadie frames and built up three of them with MTB stuff combined with the roadie bits not totally obsolete.

THey got roadie u-brakes and ordinary shimano stef-29 canti sti levers/shifters...

Works rather well actually..

The frames doesn't have any canti bosses and wont take coaster braked hubs

 

[Jesus]

Originally posted by recidivist
If you want to spend a coupla bucks, one option would be the newish Shimano's BL-R440 "flat bar" levers. They made them for all the new 'comfort' bikes -- you know, road frames with flat bars -- that Lemond, Marin, etc are making. They look like:

Old canti levers might work, but maybe not so hot, better than V-levers but still not so hot.

Or if you can find some Avid levers with speed dial, you could always speed-dial it way down to low cable pull. Hmm... that's actually a good option...

I was looking through my supliers catalouge, and I might have to run the R440 shifter as well. But I thought any Shimano shifter would work with road ders?

 

[recidivist]

Originally posted by Jesus
I was looking through my supliers catalouge, and I might have to run the R440 shifter as well. But I thought any Shimano shifter would work with road ders?

I thought so too. Must the 440 brake/shifter unit is a 'normal' shifter unit strapped to one of these super-short-pull road brake levers.

Hm. That's confusing. I mean, if the LX control unit is a LX trigger shifter plus an LX V-brake lever, then the 440 unit is an LX trigger shifter (or whatever) plus a 440 road-brake lever.

Now that you've mentioned it, I haven't seen the 440 stuff at any of my favorite e-tailers. Haven't checked QBP yet, tho...

(oops, scratch that. Bikeman's got em for $17 here,
fer example)