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I want to put flat bars on my Specialized Langster. For the brake levers do i need to use flat bar road levers or will MTB V brake levers work, or even BMX levers?
Cheers all.
Won't work, amount of cable pulled for amount of lever movement is different.
But, flat road levers are cheap as, so could be worse.
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No not really. Different cable pull I believe. Shimano do make some flat bar road brake levers though. R440? R500? Something like that.... I got some off Fleabay for about £5 a while back
Thanks folks, thought the cable pull was different.
Will check eBay.
They work fine, i use v brake levers with ultegra callipers on my flat bar road bike. Might not be designed to do it as others have siad, but it does work in practice.
thought bars were different diameters also?
V levers will work in as much as they'll pull the blocks onto the rim quickly,but you lose feel (they feel very wooden) and you lose power.
A good shop that knows the difference will be able to sell you some non-v flat levers quite cheaply.
they are at the point the stem clamps them but im pretty sure they would be the same at other points otherwise shifters and grips wouldn't be compatible from MTBs. i use mtb bar and stem so doesnt effect me.
Quite a few flat-bar levers have a switchable cam including these cheapies from DiaComp which I can recommend:
http://www.ison-distribution.com/english/product.php?part=BLDCX2LK
(The "Canti" setting is the one you'll want for road calipers)