Brake lever advice

All my fixies to date.....have either had dropped bars or bullhorns..so brake lever choice has been a doddle.....my next one.....will be using Nitto flat bars......the advice I need...is which is the 'best' 'fixie' brake lever to go onto the Nitto bars...BMX style?....Paul e lever....anything similar but cheaper?...only need one for my right hand.......I am crazy but not crazy enough to cycle sans brakes!

Your collected wisdom on this subject will be appreciated by myself......thank you comrades!

b aware that nitto flat bars are dead straight, no minor curve like other bars and may feel weird ;)

Dead straight.....a bit like me then, lol......I am used to weird!.....I am going to get some bar ends too!.......but which brake lever would you recommend???

bar ends???? you might as well stick with bullhorns.

I had Profile airwing.bulhorn....they put me too far forward...so flats with bar ends....is an experiment.....that will hopefully work for me!...we shall see.....What about the brake lever?

Goldfinger. Minimal but work well, what more could you need?

goldfinger 2 finger levers nice bits of kit old school shimano mx2000 levers are also nice with a variety of colours

as for the bars, why not just chop and flop a small set of drops?

^ Dia-compe mx1000 surely?
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loving my dirt harry

Although the tektro ones from decathlon are pretty good for 7 quid a pair

dirt harry won't be good on a straight bar. the lever'll be too far from your fingers when it's not run on the bend of the bar.
go for a gold finger. or just a bog standard bmx lever like tektro or diamondback. paul levers are waaaaay overpriced £50 for a tiny lever?! please...

I've got my dirt harry on nitto courier bars and the lever distance is fine. Maybe my fingers are just too long. :-)

im going crazy trying to get hold of a dirty harry out here..... bike shop wont give me my bike without a front brake (makes sense i guess) but they only have drop leavers..... arrrrrggggggg

Buy one from any BMX shop.

Winstanleysbmx.com
dansbmx.co.uk
half-pipe.co.uk
source-bmx.com(co.uk?)

£10.00 maximum. Fuck fixed specific shops and their overpricing.

im going crazy trying to get hold of a dirty harry out here..... bike shop wont give me my bike without a front brake (makes sense i guess) but they only have drop leavers..... arrrrrggggggg

WTF?

b aware that nitto flat bars are dead straight, no minor curve like other bars and may feel weird ;)

BTW.....Dogsballs......in what way 'weird'

WTF?

bought a fuji track. it didnt come with brakes in the box, so i am having to buy them. as i was gonna chop the drops anyway, i want a flat lever.. but none of the local shops stock any, or seem able to order them in.

(Im in Japan, no idea why this should effect anything)

you are used to swept back bars, so straight put your hands in a weird angle. doesn't agree with some people, just saying!

Recently i am used to bulhorn...which is weird in its way....it is a long long time since i used a 'straight' bar......but worst come to the worst.......i will replace them...

these acor levers are beautiful in silver.

so well designed, should cost alot more.

http://biddlebikes.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=296_300_153&products_id=185

Thanks snoops for the advice [and everyone else]........but how good are they at stopping a bike?......do youneed big hands?....Do stick out a long way?......decisions, decisions!

Nah they're fine. I sold one to Jonny of this forum, maybe ask him - i think he was putting it on a friends' bike. Twas one of those things you sell, thinking I'll really want that back another day. Bob Jackson has the silver ones.

Dia-compe Tech IV levers from www.alansbmx.com (go to the 'old school' section'). They do them in silver, red, blue and white. Plenty of people use them - you can get three fingers on them, depending on finger thickness, and IMO they are less chunky than a Goldfinger or Dirt Harry - the clamps on those levers are rather large compared to the Tech 4 clamp, although you might need to stretch (flatten) the Tech IV's clamp area a bit, since some come a bit too rounded. I have one on a 26mm bar and one on a 25.4mm Nitto riser and they look good and fit fine.