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Anyone here bought levers from forum member yamahar1 ??
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Cha0s00100
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These sellers pop up sell under one account for a few months and then recreate another account . . . .
invictus43
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Just an anecdote..there was an article in this month's Roadracing World magazine about a guy who was partially paralyzed after his knock-off brake lever broke off in his hand under heavy braking.. Caveat emptor..
+1 they are less then $40 there and if you paid this guy paypal you can stop payment if you haven't recieved them but it has to be done witin 45 days
I got a reply but still no levers, the last excuse was the postal strike that ended 4 weeks ago. I have no idea what happened to the 10 days to your door.
Rob
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This is the best advise on knock off levers....STAY AWAY!!!
Green Meenie
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They're a pretty important component in your only stopping mechanism. If they were to say "break-off" in your hand under heavy braking; you'd be pretty much screwed I would think. There's some after market accessories I might cheap out on but, brake levers; not so much.
$200 for a chunk of aluminum, couple of plastic bearings using a CNC machine?
Yea, right.
The knockoffs are aluminum and when I got mine, I tried my hardest to bend the **** out of them and subjected them to a lot of force. I don't think my finger muscles have superman strength that will snap them.
This to me is like that scare about that one in a million chance where the gas station blew up cause of a cell phone. Maybe the knock offs he bought were hollow? Maybe they were plastic? Maybe it was some cheap metal? There's too many variables that make it difficult to determine exactly where or what part they malfunctioned and why. If someone can direct me to this article that everyone keeps regurgitating then maybe I'll look in to it.
Many variable that apparently you know nothing about.
Why don't you educate me since I apparently know nothing about a lever that has one function?
First of all, you dont have a clue about the manufacturing process.
Aluminum isnt just aluminum, it comes in many different grades. From the stuff used to make aircraft, all the way down to the crap found all over the dollar store.
Second, production tollerences. CNC machines arnt magic machines as some people like yourself somehow believe. They still need qualified, skilled individuals to run them. Check parts periodically to keep things within spec.
Copies from china use the cheapest materials, steal the design, and have slave labour manufacturing. I bet a pile of parts come out of spec.......if they have specs.
They do only serve one function, to stop your bike. There is a pin on the end of the lever that presses into your master cylinder, couple thou too big and I would imagine it may jam. Wait, it has happened.
Personally I would pay the extra money just to have a tight, smooth action over some cheap crap. But I have brembo and magura, my standards might be a bit high.
There's a write up online somewhere where a metallurgist looked at the knock-offs. Summary was that while there may not be the same quality control of other more expensive companies, the levers were manufactured at a level commensurate with their use. Ie...they were fine.
They seemed to completely miss demension tollerences.
Not sure where anyone would even get that info to compare to.
Not to mention there are likely many manufactures of these knock offs, you cant really assume they are all the same can you.
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