Re: [CR]Can any brake lever be modified for aero?

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Falck)

Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:19:18 -0600
From: "Mitch Harris" <mitch.harris@gmail.com>
To: "Bianca Pratorius" <biankita@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Can any brake lever be modified for aero?
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But you'd be ruining perfectly good non-aero levers that you should sell to us instead and then buy aero levers.

But looking at the Campy levers that go both ways I think it would not be a good idea to try it--not likely to result in a safe lever. Plus you wouldn't get the extra mechanical advantage aero levers have because the pivot would be in the same place.

Mitch "teacher, leave those [levers] alone!" Harris Little Rock Canyon, Utah

On 6/21/07, Bianca Pratorius <biankita@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Modolo, Campy, Shimano etc... Is there always some method of modifying
> a non aero brake lever? It looks like you make a cut out on the lever
> body and slap an aero hood on the body and voila!
>
> Garth Libre in Miami Fl USA