Originally Posted by
kross57
Your concerns of the stem safety seem to be the same as carbonfiberboys. I get the torque thing, but I'm really not concerned. And as far the safety levers, you're right. Panic stopping is not the best. But using the regular levers i could easily eject myself right over the bars. Braking there is pretty solid. At least on my bikes.
Bar end shifters on a C&V bike?!? Sacrilege!!!!! lol
Okay.
A lot of C&V bikes had bar-end shifters. It's a heck of a lot easier to reach a bar end shifter than it is to reach all t he way down to a downtube shifter when the handlebar is a tall as yours is.
The problem I've seen with those auxiliary brake levers is that people get used to modulating their speed or braking lightly with the auxiliary lever but in a panic stop situation they can't stop suddenly with the auxiliary brake lever. By the time they realize that and reach for the main brake lever it's too late.
YMMV Good luck, enjoy and cheers