Levers - folding or regular ?

Old Dec 6, 2009 | 03:48 PM
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Levers - folding or regular ?

As you know, levers bend or break evry time we practice

I need a new short cluth lever - and I live in Israel and make all my buys from US, so I dont know if I rather buy one short folding lever or 4-5 replacement levers.

Do you think its better to use a folding lever or just keep buying new cheap levers ?

And if you guys go with a folding one, which kind ?
the one that fold up or the ones the fold out ?

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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

gilad just cut the levers so they dont hit the ground in a crash , i havent broke a lever in years
Old Dec 6, 2009 | 04:21 PM
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by old man roger
gilad just cut the levers so they dont hit the ground in a crash , i havent broke a lever in years

Thats supposed to be a secret "wink wink"! The gnarly ball on the end of the lever is supposed to act as a slider, protecting the entire bike in a crash. If we all chop the levers down, we'll just have to resort to using cages to protect the bike. Yeah, like that will catch on...... Cages!!!
Old Dec 6, 2009 | 04:43 PM
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by solukcom
Thats supposed to be a secret "wink wink"! The gnarly ball on the end of the lever is supposed to act as a slider, protecting the entire bike in a crash. If we all chop the levers down, we'll just have to resort to using cages to protect the bike. Yeah, like that will catch on...... Cages!!!
Thats not the point of the ball...its to attempt to prevent the levers from stabbing you in the chest when you wreck.

If your idea was the case why do they put a break away point in the every lever?
Old Dec 6, 2009 | 05:25 PM
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

I allways thought the ball in the lever is like a safty stoper for the fingers, so your fingers wont slip out of the lever.

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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

That whole post was a joke. Just cut the lever like OMR said and your levers will be fine.
Old Dec 6, 2009 | 05:56 PM
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by solukcom
That whole post was a joke. Just cut the lever like OMR said and your levers will be fine.
Its a joke to you, but I dont have other stunter to ask here in Israel.
For all I know I have the only real stunt bike here (the only one with crash cage and sub cage that im 100% sure)

So I dont want to buy stuff I dont need or not good for stunts, this is why I ask here, you guys have more experience and get to see other stunt bikes and can ride them to feel the setup and such, I cant.
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by solukcom
Thats supposed to be a secret "wink wink"! The gnarly ball on the end of the lever is supposed to act as a slider, protecting the entire bike in a crash. If we all chop the levers down, we'll just have to resort to using cages to protect the bike. Yeah, like that will catch on...... Cages!!!
that one was the joke bro take it easy

Originally Posted by Gilad
I allways thought the ball in the lever is like a safty stoper for the fingers, so your fingers wont slip out of the lever.

i think ur right on this one
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Gilad, buy a righteous stunt clutch and extend your clutch arm a little less than 1/2" and you'll be good to go. PM me if you need any info.
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by OnEWhEeLNEAL
Gilad, buy a righteous stunt clutch and extend your clutch arm a little less than 1/2" and you'll be good to go. PM me if you need any info.
keep hearing about extending the clutch arm. even saw a post of someone doing this wanting some clutch arms to use to make proto-types. anyone got any pics of 03 r6 so that i can understand what they are doing?
Old Dec 7, 2009 | 02:39 PM
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by reds919hornet
keep hearing about extending the clutch arm. even saw a post of someone doing this wanting some clutch arms to use to make proto-types. anyone got any pics of 03 r6 so that i can understand what they are doing?
Same concept just different bike.
https://www.stuntlife.com/forums/2-s...issue-wtf.html
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by solukcom
The gnarly ball on the end of the lever is supposed to act as a slider,
The ball is there so the levers don't gore you in the event of a crash.....
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by old man roger
gilad just cut the levers so they dont hit the ground in a crash , i havent broke a lever in years
+1 been two years since I broke a lever
Old Dec 7, 2009 | 02:51 PM
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by IMR-Merlin
The ball is there so the levers don't gore you in the event of a crash.....
or so your fingers don't slide off the end?
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Don't take it literally, I was joking!!! I know the "gnarly" ball isn't going to protect the bike, it can't even protect itself. When you crash, it snaps. I said that because everyone thinks it's a form of "slider".

The folding levers are ok but can still break and offer no easy pull ability unless you buy a Sunline lever and modify it since it does have a cut out for the cable ferrule but you still have to grind a path for the cable to run. Just buy an MSR Raptor and cut the lever down.
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by solukcom
Just buy an MSR Raptor and cut the lever down.
what he said. I have run this for 5 years, broke 1 perch, but now I keep everything a little loose so they move instead of break. haven't broke/bent a clip on, lever or perch since I loosened the clip on and level bolts a bit.
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

lose clip on? **** all that noise!

I rock all my **** solid as ****, still am not breaking levers. Hell lose clip-ons fucked me on the only stunt comp I entered, ******* clip-on was spinning my whole run
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by solukcom
Just buy an MSR Raptor and cut the lever down.
all easy pulls are garbage except the righteous one

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all the others are made of that crap pot metal and the righteous is made out of billet
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by old man roger
all easy pulls are garbage except the righteous one

RIGHTEOUSSTUNTMETAL.COM

all the others are made of that crap pot metal and the righteous is made out of billet


Gonna buy me a righteous soon as my current MSR breaks, stupid ****** always broke before when I didn't want it to and now it wont break when I want it too!
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Re: Levers - folding or regular ?

Originally Posted by old man roger
gilad just cut the levers so they dont hit the ground in a crash , i havent broke a lever in years
+1 doesnt even need to be a lot.. they can still hit even, so long as the bar end hits first that way it wont take the brunt of it.....

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