Re: [CR]Re: Suicide Levers

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:52:15 +0000
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Suicide Levers
From: "Bob Reid" <bob.reid1@virgin.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <76.5f99dc9.276cba42@aol.com>



> This is exactly how I find almost every yard sale / flea market / thrift
> store / bike I come across. The safety levers hit the handle bars.
> I can almost live with the stem mount shifters, but all my safety levers go
> to the recyclers!
> As for correct restorations, the levers can go in the baggie with the
> reflectors.
>
> Pete Geurds
> Douglassville, Pa
> This surely applies to all bikes - hardly fair to blame a downright lack of maintenance, or brake levers that are in the wrong position on the bars anyway that allow the extensions to hit them.

I'd love to repair & maintain top stuff all day, but I still get 70's & 80's low to mid-end Raleighs and Peugeots needing their brakes "fixed" with extension levers, horrible as they are. Personally I'd throw them away too - they were just a good idea with a bad application.

Bob (defending the indefensible) Reid :-)
Stonehaven
Scotland