Salsa Cross Levers Vs. Cane Creek Crosstops

Salsa Cross Levers Vs. Cane Creek Crosstops

Opinions? Will either work with V-brakes, or will I need to use canti's?

Having looked at the photos side-by-side, they seem to be exactly the same, at least externally (apart from the holes in the Salsa's).

they are both designed to work with road calipers. Will work ok with canti's or tektro mini v brakes. You'd be better off running avid shimano v brake levers if you want v brakes!

I saw that in the reviews and on their websites, but then I checked FlickR and found photos of set-ups which used only the cross lever and a brake (no extra road calipers on the end of the drop bars).

I have some sweet Avid V-brake levers, but they don't fit on my OS drop bars. So could I use the levers just on their own, as above, but with a V-Brake?

Apologies for the n00b questions.

You should be able to find the ans on google or Sheldon Brown...

... but as you sound sweet I'll give you one for free ;)

V-brakes need specific leavers bc they pull more cable to pull them together.

So:

• Canti's, caliper and mini V-brakes = most/any brake leavers
  

• V-brakes = ONLY V-brake leavers*

• there is a little pully thing you can use to use normal brake leavers - some ppl say they're shit, some say they work (search for it)

EDIT: also, yes you can use cross-tops without drops (I think thats ans'ing the other Q you were asking)

Sweet. Thanks for the info. Basically, my ideal set-up at the moment would be the Salsa Cross Levers, Deda Newton OS drop bars, and Avid Single Digit Ti V-brakes. I don't really want to have to use big unsightly drop bar levers, or different sorts of brakes, or flat bars. Fussy I know.

fwiw I was looking at cross levers recently and in the end went for Tektro RL720, £16.99 the pair from SJS, which was £10 cheaper than the Cane Creeks, look and feel nice enough for the money

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-Tektro-Tektro-Top-Mount-Brake-Levers-7187.htm

i've got the salsa's. they seem ok so far.

fwiw I was looking at cross levers recently and in the end went for Tektro RL720, £16.99 the pair from SJS, which was £10 cheaper than the Cane Creeks, look and feel nice enough for the money

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-Tektro-Tektro-Top-Mount-Brake-Levers-7187.htm

That's really good to know - for a pair thats a bargan.