Bar-end brake levers on Albastache?

[Tully Lanter]

Has anyone tried that combo? 

I plan to put Albastache bars on my Quickbeam, and realized that levers like these should preserve more hand positions while keeping the brakes accessible from the wide, short-reach position.

[Deacon Patrick]

Tully, I’ve not run bar end brake levers on the New Moustache (aka Albastache), but for years I ran bar end shifters on the Hunqapillar with new moustache bars. If your question is about room, you should be just fine. Now my Hunqapillar is the Hunqabeam, so the gear shifter is the engine with an allan wrench. Grin.

With abandon,
Patrick

[Kainalu V.]

The only thing that makes me nervous about reverse brake levers is the horrid bushwacking hook where the lever acts to hook a branch rather than deflect it, but if you don't find yourself on tightly shrubbed trails, I think there is no better lever. And if you pair them with interrupter levers way out front you'd be giving yourself a quick brake option at any point along that sweet albastache curve.
-Kai
BKNY

[Garth]

Bar end brake levers are great for bars such as both Albas and the swept back(non drop) ones .  Easily activated with just a pinkie and/or the next finger. I find it more easily accessed too , I can't put it into words it'll just be apparent as you use them.  

Kai, I hear that often by those that have never used them.  I've gone through some brush and frankly I can't see it happening even if I tried. If you are running THAT close into really knarly stuff, you could be brought down regardless of the lever, not necessarily the lever.  If we wanna play the "anythings possible angle", gotta play it all the way for every "part" including the rider !

[Kainalu V.]

Yup, Garth's right, my body has hooked on all kinds of stuff over the years. Run the bar enders with confidence, I successfully used them as I suggested, with interrupters up front. As long as there's no shifters to worry about the bars won't be so busy as to be annoying, and so very practical!
Too many levers?...
..nevers
-Kai
BKNY

[Jeremy Tavan]

I use and love bar-end brake levers on my albastache-cockpit commuter bike. For shifting it has a shortened-and-rubber-capped Silver shifter on a thumbie on the right side. On the curves, tandem stoker knobs provide another grip location which I find I basically never use, so I'm thinking about removing them next time I'm working on that bike. But the levers are very convenient, and I can brake with them from all the various positions around the bars. Recommended.

/Jeremy

[Mark Schneider]

What a great idea, I hope you post a picture I have some Albastache bars sitting around and I've had a mind to mount them on something...

On Saturday, September 1, 2018 at 9:38:50 AM UTC-7, Tully Lanter wrote:

[Tully Lanter]

I snagged a pair of secondhand Dia Compe inverse levers and just went for a quick test ride. Very nice combo with the Albastache! Here's a pic (pardon the clutter) of my soon-to-be-twined cockpit.

They are comfortable with any and all fingers in the wide position, and still accessible (to varying degrees) from the curves. We'll see how they work after a week or two of commuting, but thus far...great combo indeed!

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[Tully Lanter]

It didn't take long to realize that I want something still more upright, so gone is the Albastache, and in its place is a VO Porteur.

The backpedaling-in-the-living-room test went well, so we'll see what actual riding reveals tomorrow. If the Porteur bar still doesn't give a riding position that I thoroughly love, then I may simply be trying to make the Quickbeam into something it's not...but that's one for another thread!

Anyway, the inverse levers themselves are certainly keepers. And a cheap experiment, even at MSRP. I appreciate your collective nudge in that direction!

On Sunday, September 9, 2018 at 11:02:29 AM UTC-7, Tully Lanter wrote:

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[Garth]

I can't tell exactly the reach/height of your stem as shown, but a stem with more rise, like a Dirt Drop will certainly offer more height so you could keep the bar.

The VO Porteur offers 40mm more rise, if that is indeed enough, I assume you are aware that they come in 22.2 or 23.8 ? With a 23.8 the bar end levers you have will fit perfectly.

[Tully Lanter]

Yes, I went with the 23.8mm Porteur and installed the levers without issue. Will keep the Dirt Drop in mind should I get the itch to experiment further...

Fortunately, from today's initial ride, the Porteur (exactly as in yesterday's pics) seems to have hit the sweet spot!

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:20 AM Garth <gart...@gmail.com> wrote:

   I can't tell exactly the reach/height of your stem as shown, but a stem with more rise, like a Dirt Drop will certainly offer more height so you could keep the bar. 

   The VO Porteur offers 40mm more rise, if that is indeed enough, I assume you are aware that they come in 22.2 or 23.8 ?  With a 23.8 the bar end levers you have will fit perfectly.

[Jon BALER]

I have bar-end shifters with normal road levers on my albastache bars, and have no issues.

Jon

Ellicott City, MD