I have these Velo Orange levers on my bosco bar. They work well. I'll take a photo tomorrow, when it's light out:
https://velo-orange.com/collections/brake-levers/products/city-bike-brakes-levers I'm not sure I'd say they're easy to operate from a forward position, on the curved part of the bar, though. Prior to these, I tried dia compe guidonnet levers (shown here on the VO site, by coincidence), and they WERE operable from the curve as well as the straight section. https://velo-orange.blogspot.com/2009/08/guidonnet-levers.html?m=1 I didn't realize at the time, that I had the wrong version, meant for fatter road bar diameter bars, which was preventing me from fully clamping them, and thus allowing the levers to rotate when operated from certain positions. I thought it was a design flaw, and only after subsequently installing the city brake levers, realized that my error was just a clamp size. I wish I'd figured it out and given them a more fair try - but I do like both. They both allow for full bar wrapping, like a drop bar or even better, and solve the knuckle clearance issue. Flat bar levers don't seem to make sense for these bars, to my thinking. Plus, why spend more?! One caution: With the city bike lever, I did have to raise my bars a bit more than I prefer. Otherwise, the end of the lever was aimed right at my top tube... a dent and heartbreak waiting to happen. (This only equated to about 1" of stem showing, above full insertion, but the bullmoose stem has a lot of rise built in.) ³ On Monday, November 13, 2023 at 6:04:47 PM UTC-7 Andrew Letton wrote: > Hello Good Listers, > > I have (55cm CroMo) Bosco bars and Shimano BL-R780 levers on my old Shogun > kid-hauler/commuter, and I find that I just can't get the brake levers in a > position that both works well for braking and gives clearance for my big > knuckles when I have my hands on the top of the curve, forward of the > levers. I got in an "altercation" with a car a month ago (they turned in > front of me, and I slammed into the side of their car at speed) and while > my fractured shoulder and torn MCL are healing, I'd like to complete the > bike repairs, so it's ready to ride when I am. The left brake lever > suffered some damage, so I'm looking at replacing these with levers that > have more knuckle clearance between the bars and the adjusters. The two > levers that look promising online are the Paul Love Levers and the IRD > Cafam levers, but I'm open to other long-pull candidates. > > *If you have Love Levers, the Cafams, or some other lever you think would > be a good candidate, would you mind measuring the distance from the > adjuster to the handlebar (assuming a straight bar, for consistency) and > reporting back here?* The dimension on these Shimano levers is about > 28mm. > > Thanks in advance, > > Andrew in Sydney > > [image: Inline image] > > [image: Inline image] > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/20986bff-0303-4dc3-8f0a-797939c807ebn%40googlegroups.com.
