Brake lever for oversize bars (31.8)?

Posted on Mon 20th, October 2008

• #1

Boodangle

Any suggestions for a brake lever to suit the flat part of my lo-pro bars. Charlie TBM has Salsa Crosstops bit I'd imagine they are not as effective as Paul E-Levers or Dia-Tech Goldfingers (my prefered choices).
• #2

dooks

i have some bew oversize cane creek crosstops you can have for cheep. not very glamorous but they do the job. if you want them let me know.
• #3

Boodangle

Thanks for the offer dooks but I'm after dedicated brake levers and crosstops would be a bit of a stop gap (no pun intended).
• #4

dooks

no worries.
• #5

vinylvillain

I run both on different bikes, and prefer the Cross Tops to the Goldfingers
• #6

jonny

I run both on different bikes, and prefer the Cross Tops to the Goldfingers

me too though don't bother with the goldfingers any more. the salsa cross tops the way to go.
• #7

tilover

in the post to you now btw.. you should get em tomorrow
• #8

tilover

oops. wrong thread. ignore me
• #9

miro_o

All the cross levers... Specialized, Tekro, Salsa, Crane Creek etc are fine to use as your only lever. They are less chunky/overbuilt than the BMX levers that's all.

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