Re: Levers for Tektro Oryx brakes

yeah, but non-aero levers kinda suck.

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Scott Loveless <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:07 AM, . dkoloko <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Scott Loveless <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 7:19 PM, . dkoloko <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Any recommended? (Just levers; not brifters.)
> >>
> >> Based on my personal experience with Oryx brakes, coupled with Jan
> >> Heine's recommendations in BQ and elsewhere, I would recommend
> >> non-aero levers.  VO is selling some these days if you don't have a
> >> pair or 20 laying around.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Scott Loveless
> >>
> > Why, please?
>
> To use a stock Surly Long Haul Trucker as the example, with Tektro
> R200 levers and Oryx brakes, you basically end up with too much
> mechanical advantage.  Both the levers and the brakes are high
> mechanical advantage machines.  In other words, if the pads aren't set
> very close to the rim, you could run out of lever travel squeezing
> air.  Those R200 levers work very nicely with dual-pivot road calipers
> and wider profile cantilever brakes.  I have used them on my own bikes
> with Tektro R556 calipers and CR720 cantilever brakes.  The Oryx
> brakes are better suited to non-aero levers for drop bars and
> canti-specific MTB levers.  I'm generalizing a bit and there's a lot
> of gray area, but I think that's a good place to start.
>
> There are a few threads on the i-BOB list concerning this very topic,
> at least one of which I started with questions similar to yours.
> There's a review of the LHT in Bicycle Quarterly Vol. 8, No.1 that
> includes some criticism of the Oryx brakes.
>
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> Scott Loveless
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