gary-mac Posted March 10, 2011 Report Share Posted March 10, 2011 As above, can you buy these for spares? After near eating concrete tonight trying a gap to front and it going very wrong I bent both levers. Now I took them off and sorted them so everything is spot on. Just want to know can you buy the lever blades separate?. Cheers Garymac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostrider88 Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 As far as I know you can´t,but I really don´t understand how could you bent em? they seem to be pretty much undestroyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary-mac Posted March 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 As far as I know you can´t,but I really don´t understand how could you bent em? they seem to be pretty much undestroyable. gap to front went really wrong, front wheel tucked under the step i was going for. let go of bike and bike front flipped hitting both lever bending them down about 3mm. i fixed them noprob was just wondering if its possible to buy spare blades as they come off very easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKidney Posted March 11, 2011 Report Share Posted March 11, 2011 To avoid bending them in future, I highly recommend you use a trick I found in mototrials. I have my magura tightened just enough to stop it rotating on the bar when in use, but slack enough to allow it to move if hit when I bail. You can then just pull it round to its normal position and your brake will have suffered cosmetical damage at most. Have saved so many maggie bodys with this trick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary-mac Posted March 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2011 To avoid bending them in future, I highly recommend you use a trick I found in mototrials. I have my magura tightened just enough to stop it rotating on the bar when in use, but slack enough to allow it to move if hit when I bail. You can then just pull it round to its normal position and your brake will have suffered cosmetical damage at most. Have saved so many maggie bodys with this trick I've riding at high level at motor trials and still am and you'll find no top rider does this, causes problems in motorcycle trials. splat one step and the levers down when its not possible to move back up when riding a section getting timed. Trick is not to crash lol. Also i use carbon bars on push bike so would just damage the bars. would rather bend a lever and have a spare if you know what i mean. what you have said is fine though but not for myself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamKidney Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 I've riding at high level at motor trials and still am and you'll find no top rider does this, causes problems in motorcycle trials. splat one step and the levers down when its not possible to move back up when riding a section getting timed. Trick is not to crash lol. Also i use carbon bars on push bike so would just damage the bars. would rather bend a lever and have a spare if you know what i mean. what you have said is fine though but not for myself. I'm only riding basic mototrials in a non competitive way, so still learning and I was unaware you were running carbon bars so probably best to keep them tight Fully understand where your coming from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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