V brake lever with calipers I am converting an old road bike to fixed gear with brakes. I am opting for long reach calipers as the brake reach is 70mm. As i am going to put a flat handlebar I am thinking of buying brake lever but can't figure out should go for v brakes lever or not.
Will V-brake lever work with long reach calipers?
Thanks
MTB vee brakes have a different pull ratio than road caliper pull ratio.
They make specific levers for each.
I've used normal mtb vee levers on road bikes before and it was fine, when I used the brakes, it just felt like it stopped with small amounts of movement of the lever. So modulation wasn't great. But it worked.
Alternatively, you could use &quot;cross top&quot; levers which should work better than normal MTB levers.
Cross top levers, used a lot in CX and touring bikes.