Mountain Bike Brake Levers On Drop Bars

All of shimano s current alivio acera stx deore lx xt and xtr mountain bike shifters and brakes use aluminum housings and handlebar clamps.

Mountain bike brake levers on drop bars. Traditional mountain bike flat bars have a diameter of 22 2mm 7 8 and as such all brake levers designed for use with such bars have a corresponding clamp size. Lever of riders left is too far inward. Lixada bicycle brake handle 1 pair universal aluminum mtb mountain bike cycling brake levers front rear brake levers drop handlebar set 3 7 out of 5 stars 22 13 99 13. Posted 1 year ago philjunior.

How to install and position brake levers on bikes with drop handlebars. There are a lot of road bars which you can move around drops which can be reversed as shown in the picture and i have seen conventional brake levers mounted in the usual direction with respect to the bar or bullhorn bars which can be made by cutting drop bars if you re so inclined butterfly bars. These cannot be widened enough to fit onto the larger road diameter bars. On a gravel offroad bike you don t want them as low as a road bike so you don t need a big drop so for that sort of use those bars are close to ideal imo.

I show how to install dropbar handlebars and integrated brake shifter levers brifters on a mountain bike with 26 wheels to build a touring monster cross gravel bike. Sight bars from above and rotate so both are parallel to one another. Therefore your existing mountain bike shifters and brake levers won t fit on drop handlebars. The lever should be parallel to each other and to the center plane of the bike.

The brake levers are just better. So do the ones made by sram. Sight over the bars and look at the rotation of the two brake levers.