Vippen
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On a stressfull day, I managed to drop the bike to the right when shuffling it around in my too small garage. Touched my workbench with the front wheel sothe balance shifed evr so slightly, but my 75 kg couldn't stop the fall so it went down slooowly... What a dumb-a** I am!
Luckily, the only real damage, beside some minute scratches to the bar end, was that the foot-brake lever got bent. Not too bad, still useable without being a hazard, but it looks ugly, and of course I'd like to have it fixed. I know so much that aluminium goes brittle when it's deformed, probably even more so for cast aluminium, so I'm hesitant to trying to bend it back into shape, being left with a snapped lever and no foot-brake... Has anybody got any experience from bending an alu lever?
I was quoted around $180 for a new lever (I'm in Sweden), which I find rediculous. Maybe someone that's switched to after market pegs/levers has one they could think of selling to me (for less...)?
If nothing else, maybe this is the cue to get a pair of Gilles rear-sets...
Luckily, the only real damage, beside some minute scratches to the bar end, was that the foot-brake lever got bent. Not too bad, still useable without being a hazard, but it looks ugly, and of course I'd like to have it fixed. I know so much that aluminium goes brittle when it's deformed, probably even more so for cast aluminium, so I'm hesitant to trying to bend it back into shape, being left with a snapped lever and no foot-brake... Has anybody got any experience from bending an alu lever?
I was quoted around $180 for a new lever (I'm in Sweden), which I find rediculous. Maybe someone that's switched to after market pegs/levers has one they could think of selling to me (for less...)?
If nothing else, maybe this is the cue to get a pair of Gilles rear-sets...