Well I went ahead with it and threw caution to the wind. It turned out to be quite easy. Turns out if you heat them to just 300 degrees (about 5 seconds of heating with propane torch on medium power) you can bend them with not much force. I used a 7" piece of handlebar cutoff as an extension. I bent them out about 1.5 inches. They look amazing and work perfect. They are the stock levers from the 80s so I was going for that 80s drillium look. Couldnt be more pleased with the outcome. Now if I can figure a just as fast and easy way to turn stems downt to 21.1 aka .833, then I would really be getting somewhere.