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Thinking of buying a set of these maybe cane creek ,are they easy to fit set up and does every thing come included with the levers when you buy them
Just the levers - what else would you be expecting?
They can be a pain to set up TBH.
You need to cut the cable outer somewhere near where it leaves the tape (and you'll need to get the tape off) so possibly (probably) new cables and outers required, it's also worth spending some time getting the cable runs to the cross top levers just so, otherwise you find new inners difficult to fit (if the outer doesn't quite line up with hole in the ct lever) and braking from the main levers can suffer.
Just in my experience, maybe someone will be along to tell me where I've been going wrong 😉
I have had similar problems, currently my rear inner brake cable is dragging on my crosstops, I need to strip the handlebar tape and cables to fix, so is not a five minute job.
Doug
I have never paid any attention to them before so not a clue how they work, just thought they would just clamp on somehow if its a faff I wont bother
The levers do just clamp on, that's not a faff.
Connecting them up on the other hand can take a little while to get right. They work very well though.
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no not the levers I meant how the new cable attaches to the original cable ?
It doesn't, you need to fit new cables. It's one cable that runs from the STI's, the lever splits the outer and the inner runs right through it.
ah get you just had a look ,sorry was thinking you had to use a seperate cable
*at the risk of being pointed at and ridiculed for eternity* does that mean the gear shifter/brake lever is only a gear shifter now? Or is there some splitter cable that allows you to use both levers as brakes? 😳
The cross top lever pulls the outer cable so both levers work differently. The end result is that both sets of brake levers (the 'normal' ones plus the cross top ones) work so you can choose which to use.
they work by pulling the two parts of outer apart rather than pulling the inner like the normal lever does
been thinking of putting mine back on
PS - @ l_d
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I see now. Does it work for cable discs too?
*awaits another humilition* 😀
I see now. Does it work for cable discs too?
*awaits another humilition*
Yes they do. I've got bullhorn aero bars on my Sutra, that I've SS'd. It has bar-end brake levers and cross-top levers operating Avid Road discs, and they work just fine. You [i]really[/i] need to make sure that the levers are in [i]exactly[/i] the right place, 'cos once you've got the cables in you won't be able to move them, because of the way they pull the cable outer. My LBS fitted mine, I really wouldn't have wanted to try it myself.
Eh? Fitting them's easy. What's complex about it?
And just to be helpful, here's how
1 remove bar tape
2 undo brake inner from brakes
3 pull outer off inner
4 fit cross top levers to bars
5 cut outers to fit from main brake levers to cross top levers
6 cut outers to fit from cross top levers to brakes
7 feed inners back through outers and clamp to brakes
8 redo bar tape
Done!
sounds easy enough if I can get some locally tomoz I will bang some on for the weekend
Fitted some today dead easy ,see you at the start line on Sunday if your doing the 3Peaks
Six years or more of using hydraulics, plus not having suitable cable cutters leaves me totally unprepared for fannying around trying to gauge cable lengths and trimming, etc. I'd rather a professional do it properly first time.
took my crosser off road for the 1st time today (i'm a newbie to cross) and i must say it's starting to make sense*. i would've liked the top brakes but i think i managed ok without them.
* ssshh don't tell anyone
Has anyone a link to the picture that was on the on-one/px site that shows the uncle john with the hope hydro brakes being pulled by the drop road brakes? Top bodge!
How do you run v brakes with road levers ?
adt - MemberHow do you run v brakes with road levers ?
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yeh instead of using cantis is there any way of using v brakes ? I was under the impression that a road brake/shifter would not opperate a v brake without some kind of modification
You use the item in the link I posted.
CHEERS Simon didnt see that ,not used v brakes for years but imagine they are 100% better than cantis and if I am doing Peaks again I need better brakes