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Old 09-25-09, 07:32 PM
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Make sure you can grasp plenty of lever. Move the levers if you have to. Lube the cables.

I disagree with Marie Celeste's suggestion to remove the lever extensions provided the stock levers work well enough. Mine do, on my '85 World Sport, and they have extensions, though you do have to take up the flex.

Flex does not decrease force but you do have to keep the brakes well adjusted so that you could still be applying ample force after the flex is taken up, instead of bottoming the lever or not being able to grab it with a full fist.

Using the extensions themselves never provides full braking action but you should only use them when tooling around slowly. I also only ever use the part which is behind the pivot, not the part which points inward.

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