Fixed brake lever?

[MattAune]

A trick I have seen done is to take a really short brake cable and feed it through the clamp where the brake mounts. Use the same lever on both sides but the one wont pivot at all.

[Dirt]

I use regular brake levers on my drop bars. I’ve hooked the right lever up to a cable-actuated squirt gun (remember the “Sir, will you be taking that weapon into the office” incident?) or a cable-actuated bell.

SRAM are my favorite levers. The hoods fit my hands best. I like the campy ones too, though they’re $300+ for a pair, so I don’t buy those.

I have a set of Ultegra brifters on the Tweed that are nice. It gives my hands something to do when they otherwise would be doing the devil’s work. The shifters are not connected to anything… that doesn’t stop me from using them though.

Hope that helps.

Pete

[OneEighth]

I use a two-finger lever mounted almost right at the stem for my “oh shit” brake on both fixies. I’m also using narrow track drops. Not sure how well regular road levers would fit.
Paul makes some lovely levers. Highly recommended. http://www.paulcomp.com/brakelevers.html

[dcv]

I use Tektro R341’s on my singlespeed with drops, it fits smaller hands better.

[Jason B]

^^^^
Thanks for the replies. Are you running front and rear for the Tektro’s? If not, how do you keep the dead lever from flopping around. They look nice, and a decent price.

[dcv]

@Jason B 60737 wrote:

^^^^
Thanks for the replies. Are you running front and rear for the Tektro’s? If not, how do you keep the dead lever from flopping around. They look nice, and a decent price.

I’m using the tektros on my singlespeed so i have both front & rear brakes hooked up.

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