Classic & Vintage - Turkey Levers

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braingel
03-27-07, 01:47 PM
After replacing all of the turkey levers on bikes I flip with regular ones, I just had a revelation - I can use a hacksaw to cut off the stub that's left when you remove the second lever. Wow...did you all already know this, and I just missed it somehow?

infinityeye
03-27-07, 01:53 PM
yep!
Robert Gardner
03-27-07, 01:58 PM
What is a "turkey lever"?

top506
03-27-07, 02:34 PM
1) What some folks call safety levers on old-style non-areo Weinman, Dia Copme, and Shimano brake levers.
2) If you throw on a set of hoods to cover the cut stud no one will ever be the wiser ;)
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Alekhine
03-27-07, 02:41 PM
What is a "turkey lever"?

My memory is fuzzy, but I think it means these things:

http://wandel.ca/bikes/0620-170639.jpg
reverborama
03-27-07, 02:43 PM
Suicide levers! It really upsets the poseurs when you pass them fully equipped with suicide levers and dork disks. I never ride without them. Seriously.
bigbossman
03-27-07, 02:48 PM
If I'm gonna flip the bike, I don't bother. It doesn't hurt the saleability of the bike to leave them on, and I'm morally opposed to unnecessary labor..... :)

Besides, a lot of folks like them.
mastershake916
03-27-07, 03:00 PM
I love them.
Little Darwin
03-27-07, 03:08 PM
I prefer to call them turkey wings. :D

It isn't that I don't like them, but I like the comfort of my Tektro hoods, and they don't have them. If I had a bike with them, they would stay unless I wanted to replace the levers completely (as noted earlier).

Adjusted right, they provide for the ability to slow down and stop while riding the tops of the bars... I think they get a bad rap because they didn't tend to come on the higher end bikes of the era.
braingel
03-27-07, 04:22 PM
They do get a bad rap for that, but I personally hate the fact that they prevent you from riding comfortably on the hoods.
cudak888
03-27-07, 04:36 PM
Suicide levers! It really upsets the poseurs when you pass them fully equipped with suicide levers and dork disks. I never ride without them. Seriously.

So long as you're passing someone on a Giant or Quintana Roo, all you need are non-aero cables to get the same effect.

Luckily, another vintage machine might pop up in the area at times to even things out - I rode in a pace line recently behind a fellow on a full Super Record-equipped Vitus - with not a part changed on it since new.

-Kurt