[CR]re:straightening Weinmann levers

(Example: Production Builders:LeJeune)

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:37:14 -0800
From: "Bob Freitas" <freitas1@pacbell.net>
To: seaneee175@gmail.com
cc: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
cc: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS
Subject: [CR]re:straightening Weinmann levers


                      We often re profiled levers to accommodate smaller hands or in the case of some Universals we would reshape them so they were more comfortable for braking from the hoods.
                        To straighten a lever like Weinmann (or Diacompe) we would just install it on the bars and then take a seat post (I recall this being a long Schwinn post) slide it over and then just move them out.
                        With MAFAC levers they had such a long reach we would bend them back so smaller hands could reach them.
                              This was all well before the rise of Liability insurance or bus loads of lawyers of course.
                                                         BOB FREITAS
                   BIKE SPOT secrets revealed in MILL VALLEY, CA USA