Has anyone installed Guidonnet style levers on Choco's?

[jandrews]

Surely someone has

[jandrews]

Similarly, if someone who owns the Dia-Compe versions of those levers could provide length measurements, that would be greatly appreciated.

[Kainalu V.]

I have a tortured you can have, to measure or use. I rigged a threaded lamp connector to give some reach adjustment. It was a butchering, but it worked to get the levers a little closer. I've got pictures somewhere, maybe posted here, but I'll have a look around. I remember that experience led to me wanting a guidonnet or any lever with a ball mount. Infinite adjustability, maximum pain in the butt? Anyways, I work on west 77th and commute to Brooklyn every day, could hide'em in a tree somewheres...
-Kai
BKNY

[Kainalu V.]

Here it is, but it was on albatross bars- and it was the chocomoose that made me want the infinity brake lever.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!msg/rbw-owners-bunch/l-lWV_Sk5b0/1TJk4jbca2gJ;context-place=forum/rbw-owners-bunch/topics

[Joe Bernard]

I have a new Dia-Compe set I've been meaning to use for, like, 3 years. The chances of this ever happening seem to be nah so if anybody wants them I figure 20 bucks shipped.

[Eric Karnes]

I've used them on the VO Porteurs which are similar to the Chocos. Wasn't a fan. They have lots of flex and sit very far away from the bar with no adjustment (though Kai's smartly-rigged set might fix the latter). 

Eric

[Eamon Nordquist]

Similar feelings here. I also had a set mounted on VO Porteur bars. I found that if you grabbed the curved end portion hard in an emergency braking situation, the levers could rotate on the bars, causing the lever to bottom out against the bars. This led to a very scary near crash for me. I couldn't seem to tighten the band clamp enough to make them feel safe and secure to me.

Eamon

[jandrews]

That's for the valuable feedback everyone

The impulse has passed and I think I'll avoid pursuing those levers 

Jason

[Jeremy Till]

Earlier this year I was in a friend's bike shop, where he deals mainly in used bikes and parts with a bobbish flavor. He had a pair of late 80's or early 90's mountain bike levers, maybe also made by Dia-Compe, with a guidonnet-style bend in them, that had been intended to allow the use of brakes while riding on bar-ends. They were significantly beefier than Guidonnet levers and immediately got me thinking along these lines.  Unfortunately I think the clamp was intended for flat bars and would be too wide to fit around the curves of a Choco or Albatross, and the angle of the bend was more acute, to follow bar-ends which generally angled in.  

I also think Paul Components, in their early days, made some lever extenders for a similar purpose.  Maybe an alternative?