I decided to have a look at my brake lever yesterday .. its been bent for ages from a car park spill and then it got even more bent when I dropped the bike on myself sometime ago ..so using an old trick I learned from my dad I set to straightening it in situ!! :-)


Here is the bent lever ...




Here is what I did ..I used an large plastic clamp and rammed it tight in between lever and grip ..then using this steel tube off a trolley jack I slipped it over the lever and gently eased it back ..it was so easy to do ... no strength at all required




Here is the result ...






I also used some wet/dry on exhaust scratches and touched up with black smoothrite ..its not perfect, but the scratches were low ...


.. as my dad used to say ...

A blind man on a galloping horse will never notice!! ..lol

 

That looks really good Jules. You'd never know thatit was ever dropped.

Wait a minute!! ... you'd dropped it before?!...lol.

 

Haha, love the use of the plastic clamp.

 

good job..your lucky you didnt snap that lever though

 

sooooo....you just bent it back?

 

in situ...what an excellent phrase. I'm a huge fan of anything original. You are a clever girl.

Always a clean bike, too, hmm...you, miss, are buttering my parsnips lol

 

Nice Jules! I wish I could do that to the handle on my Enduro, it's warped so bad that there's a big crack started just waiting for the lever to break in two. Paint work looks pretty nice too. Keep that mind occupied!

 

I know its not much to some but I am truly chuffed it worked out here ..no need to remove the lever and do it in a vice or buy a new one .. I fixed my bike and it didnt cost me anything which is always good in my book :-) ..truly the lever is perfect you would never know it was bent :-)

Jules

 

Very nice, you could have caught a fish with that bent lever. Very clever girl indeed, however, and Extremely clever girl would have done that a long time ago

 

wow that would annoy me...

nice job