please tell me about this brake lever!
09-07-11, 09:23 AM
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please tell me about this brake lever!
I picked up this single lever on ebay, pretty cheap I think. Seller didn't know what it was; another person commented it was from a 50's Schwinn.
The lever is aluminum, and the lever body is aluminum. The rest of it is steel. The band fits a 7/8" bar.
I'd like to pick up another one like this. Does anyone know who made it, what model bike it came on, in what years?
The lever is aluminum, and the lever body is aluminum. The rest of it is steel. The band fits a 7/8" bar.
I'd like to pick up another one like this. Does anyone know who made it, what model bike it came on, in what years?
09-07-11, 11:45 AM
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This one is kind of close: (not sure how safe the website is however)
https://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/39...ake_lever.html
The second hole in the body made me think of a parking brake option, some used to have a spring loaded plunger pin that acted as a parking brake, some newer bikes might still have that option.
https://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/39...ake_lever.html
The second hole in the body made me think of a parking brake option, some used to have a spring loaded plunger pin that acted as a parking brake, some newer bikes might still have that option.
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Bump, because I still don't know what it is. Anyone?
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Looks like an old trike brake, with the option for a parking brake as has been said.
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Thanks! Yeah, I considered the parking brake idea, and it doesn't hold up. You can't pull the the lever far enough to open up the second hole. I thought the second hole could be for changing the amount of cable pull, but that doesn't work either; the second hole is a different diameter than the first hole. And anyway, to change the amount of pull you'd want to have a second hole in the lever itself, not in the part that holds the lever.
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