Turkey Levers
03-27-07, 01:47 PM
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Turkey Levers
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?
03-27-07, 01:58 PM
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What is a "turkey lever"?
03-27-07, 02:34 PM
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Death fork? Naaaah!!
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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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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03-27-07, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Gardner
What is a "turkey lever"?
03-27-07, 02:43 PM
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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.
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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.
Besides, a lot of folks like them.
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I prefer to call them turkey wings. 
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.
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.
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03-27-07, 04:22 PM
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They do get a bad rap for that, but I personally hate the fact that they prevent you from riding comfortably on the hoods.
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Originally Posted by reverborama
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.
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
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