Dear All,
I am new to the list so hope the following is not out of scope. I would ask, in advance, for your patience if this is a particularly ignorant question.
I am looking for a bike part but don't know what it is called so I am finding it difficult to look for! I therefore hope you will not mind if I call upon your collective wisdom!
Back when all roadies rode a fixed wheel bikes would only have a front brake (the same is true today of fixies). I have a number of old photo's (1950ish I think)where the other brake lever is replaced by a sort of a metal stump that attached to the handlbars and enables the rider to rest their hand on it.
I would really like to get hold of one of these for an old Holdsworth roadpath bike that I am putting together. Does anyone have any idea what they were called and ideally where I might get one?
Many thanks,
Gordon Taylor, Somerset, England