Charge Bowl Brakes conundrum...

[Belfastox]

Does have anybody have a set of Charge Bowl Bars with brakes fitted and if so, which brakes did you use? There doesn't seem to be a lot of room for brakes and a mate of mine has just bought some for his singlespeed and he's worried about how he might stop!

 

[wheres_my_beard]

I use Bowl bars, and found it quite uncomfortable to use brakes on the top due to the narrow shoulders. I use Tektro RX 4.1 TT style levers on the ends of the drops, which works well for me and means I can get loads of power through the crank, yet can still use the brakes instantly, and they have really good actuation on the caliper brakes.

I hope this helps.

 

[Pennine-Paul]

I tried Bowl bars a couple of years ago found there's not enough
room to ride on the tops and using the drops all the time gave me neck ache
switched to some cut down and flipped Cinelli criterium bars
I've noticed Charge have changed the design of the bowl bars to a more
traditional type,not seen any in the flesh tho
http://chargebikes.com/parts/bowl/

 

[Belfastox]

Thanks all. They're really nice bars but I'm not sure they're going to do for my mate. He's going to try your solution wheres_my_beard - I'll let you know how he gets on.