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I've found these as possible temporary set up for my girlfriends bike with some Nitto moustache bars to alleviate her shoulder problem.
It's not clear from the photo, but are the brake levers for cable operated v brakes, and will the arc of the lever work with some XTR cantilever brakes?
Edit, do these gear levers haveto be used in conjunction with a rapid rise back to front rear mech?
They are for hydraulic brakes. Known as the 'flappy' or 'flippy floppy' shifters from about 2005 IIRC. They were going to be the XC shifter of choice but never really got accepted.
These are not the shifters you are looking for if you want cable.
Did they not make a hydraulic and cable brake combination of these with the flappy shifters?
That [i]does[/i] look like a barrel adjuster on the brake side of things. I only saw hydraulic. In fact - must be cable - there is no reservoir cap on there. Well - you learn something every day.
Here:
[url= http://techdocs.shimano.com/techdocs/blevel.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302051947&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395181679&bmUID=j7n9CkR ]Shimano tec docs[/url]
Scroll down - the 776 was hydraulic, but the V brake version (other numbers) are there too.
Yep they looked like barrel adjusters to me too.
Any idea if the cable pull will be the same for cantilever and v brakes. The set up I want them for is a road bike so super off road stopping power is not really an issue.
Will the shifters operate a regular rear mech, non rapid rise?
Cable pull is different, I know you couldn't use cantilever levers with v brakes as the leverage was different but I dont know if would work the other way round. Mind you setting up cantilever brakes compared to v's was a lot more fiddly.
Think those shifters are rapid rise.
Using canti brakes with v brake levers isn't a good idea
Basically, you'll be squeezing really hard.. and hardly stopping!
You'll need canti levers. On-One used to do them. Look out for Dia-Compes, they're cheap as.
They look like XT STI levers.