Adapting vintage brake levers to modern handlebars?
08-08-20, 08:24 AM
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Adapting vintage brake levers to modern handlebars?
Hi,
I have older Campagnolo levers coming off Cinelli bars (26.4) to big for me from a 1988 Basso Loto I picked up this summer. Replacing old quill stem with threadless stem. Stem diameter is 31.8, so I am getting handlebars that size.
Is there anyway to adapt 26.4 brake levers to 31.8 or can anyone recommend a new set of levers that do fit 31.8...
thanks!!
I have older Campagnolo levers coming off Cinelli bars (26.4) to big for me from a 1988 Basso Loto I picked up this summer. Replacing old quill stem with threadless stem. Stem diameter is 31.8, so I am getting handlebars that size.
Is there anyway to adapt 26.4 brake levers to 31.8 or can anyone recommend a new set of levers that do fit 31.8...
thanks!!
08-08-20, 08:45 AM
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Hi,
I have older Campagnolo levers coming off Cinelli bars (26.4) to big for me from a 1988 Basso Loto I picked up this summer. Replacing old quill stem with threadless stem. Stem diameter is 31.8, so I am getting handlebars that size.
Is there anyway to adapt 26.4 brake levers to 31.8 or can anyone recommend a new set of levers that do fit 31.8...
thanks!!
I have older Campagnolo levers coming off Cinelli bars (26.4) to big for me from a 1988 Basso Loto I picked up this summer. Replacing old quill stem with threadless stem. Stem diameter is 31.8, so I am getting handlebars that size.
Is there anyway to adapt 26.4 brake levers to 31.8 or can anyone recommend a new set of levers that do fit 31.8...
thanks!!
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Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Old School…When It Wasn’t Ancient bikepacking
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!
08-08-20, 08:53 AM
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Hi,
I have older Campagnolo levers coming off Cinelli bars (26.4) to big for me from a 1988 Basso Loto I picked up this summer. Replacing old quill stem with threadless stem. Stem diameter is 31.8, so I am getting handlebars that size.
Is there anyway to adapt 26.4 brake levers to 31.8 or can anyone recommend a new set of levers that do fit 31.8...
thanks!!
I have older Campagnolo levers coming off Cinelli bars (26.4) to big for me from a 1988 Basso Loto I picked up this summer. Replacing old quill stem with threadless stem. Stem diameter is 31.8, so I am getting handlebars that size.
Is there anyway to adapt 26.4 brake levers to 31.8 or can anyone recommend a new set of levers that do fit 31.8...
thanks!!
The part you mount the brake levers is not the center bulge, that is what you are focusing on erroneously,
, the rest of a drop bar remains the same diameter.. 15/16"
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08-08-20, 08:55 AM
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