Spring loaded White Dia-Compe Aero Gran Compe Levers lost a spring
09-06-14, 10:07 PM
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Spring loaded White Dia-Compe Aero Gran Compe Levers lost a spring
I have a pair of these levers on my bike and I flipped the bike over to do some work on it. A kid in my building squeezed the brake lever and a round spring rolled out and away into a storm drain. My front brake no longer works. The levers are pretty expensive so I'd really rather try to replace the spring instead of the levers, does anyone have an idea where I could find that part? There are two springs in the brakes, one that is a circle with two lengths of metal coming off and one that looks like a traditional coil spring, and the coil spring one is the one that rolled away.
09-07-14, 01:45 AM
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If you lost the spring that was within the lever, the brake should still work fine. It's the springs in the calipers that open the caliper, pull the cable and return the lever to the open position. Most levers don't have springs, but DiaCompe added a spring as a helper. It's more important for the back brake because the longer run has more friction, the front should b fine without it.
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Apparently this is a double post as there is another identical one here. Fortunately, when I answered the OP in that one, I told him the same thing! 
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If you lost the spring that was within the lever, the brake should still work fine. It's the springs in the calipers that open the caliper, pull the cable and return the lever to the open position. Most levers don't have springs, but DiaCompe added a spring as a helper. It's more important for the back brake because the longer run has more friction, the front should b fine without it.
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