Thanks for the ride report ChuckB. Glad to hear they feel good and do the job. I have been toying with a switch to linear pull brakes on my Sam. I am a drop bar rider, so wondering how the DC287 feel and work in practice. I love the feel of the Shimano Tiagra levers, and thought these might be a close match for those. I know of only perhaps two other drop bar levers for linear pull brakes, and they don't look like they'd be a good match for my small hands.
John Oregon On Sunday, November 23, 2025 at 6:07:43 PM UTC-8 ChuckB wrote: > John, > > I took the bike on a 30 mile ride today. Brakes felt great. Just as > effective as when set up with the IRD levers on a swept bar. They were > smooth as any caliper brake on drop levers while being more powerful. No > complaints at all. > > Chuck > > On Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 12:59:24 AM UTC-5 John Bokman wrote: > > I'll be interested to hear how you find the feel of the brake levers, and > how they work with your linear pull brakes. They look like the Shimano > Tiagra brake levers that Riv sells (and that I've been using for years). > Thanks for posting this. > > John > Oregon > > On Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 10:17:43 AM UTC-8 JohnS wrote: > > Thank you for sharing Chuck, good to know. > > JohnS > > On Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 11:57:15 AM UTC-5 ChuckB wrote: > > I am in the process of converting my Sam from Choco bars to Noodle drop > bars. I bought the Dia-Compe DC 287V brake levers from Rivendell to use > with my V-Brakes. It came with two noodles (one with a cable adjuster and a > smaller one without) for each brake, which confused me. Rivendell didn't > have any explanation on their product page of how each is used or even if > both are needed. Only after searching the internet (probably should have > just called Rivendell!) for over an hour did I find a somewhat definite > statement of how to use them, so I'm posting that here. Maybe this is > obvious, but I have only installed modern Shimano Brifter brakes before, so > this was very confusing to me. > > So, the noodle with the cable adjuster is used in its normal manner on the > V-brake itself, which was not a problem. The smaller noodle was really the > confusing one, and it actually needs to be installed into the brake lever > before installing it on the handlebars. The pictures show how it fits. It > is necessary so as to have a smooth low-friction cable run from under the > hood. I had installed the cables and housing without using this noodle and > could not get the brakes to return to neutral. The smaller noodle fixed > this. Hope this is helpful to someone! > [image: PXL_20251120_130433904.jpg][image: PXL_20251120_130302188.jpg][image: > PXL_20251120_130241468.jpg] > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6d03cbde-c535-403f-b2f0-ac3f4cab70e8n%40googlegroups.com.
