Cool alloy controls

Anyone got some snazzy upgraded alloy controls for drum brake years? I see the magura ones out there but I don't know how they fit and if people are happy with them. The stock ones on my bike are cheap looking and with 40 years on them they dont look all that cool. I would like something with anodized black and alloy burnished or polished.

Do Magura ones fit the stock cable? If not are there other ones that stock cables fit??

Anyone have some cool options to share?

Thanks!

Hehe just how cool can a simple cable lever get, its not got fancy plumbing parts to pretty up display like the hydrualic brakes. Try ebay under drum brake lever and see the selection a bit beyond regular ole lever and perches. Or type brake lever images in google and oggle the shapes colors and sizes to excite you.

http://www.google.com/search?q=brake+le ... 39&bih=600



This is similar to Peel's

iceteanolemon said:

Do Magura ones fit the stock cable? If not are there other ones that stock cables fit??

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I'm not 100% sure as I run a 4LS Grimeca on the featherbed - with a balanced twin pull Magura - but the clutch cable fits directly and gives a slightly lighter pull. I removed the black paint however and had the stuff tumbler polished.


Tim

hobot said:

Hehe just how cool can a simple cable lever get, its not got fancy plumbing parts to pretty up display like the hydrualic brakes. Try ebay under drum brake lever and see the selection a bit beyond regular ole lever and perches. Or type brake lever images in google and oggle the shapes colors and sizes to excite you.

http://www.google.com/search?q=brake+le ... 39&bih=600

This is similar to Peel's

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It should be REAL cool!!!

I like those options. I dont like my original folded steel ones with pitted crap chrome...

Venhill don't just do cables, they also do handlebar controls.

See here: http://www.venhill.co.uk/Controls_and_L ... ROL_LEVERS

I saw them in the flesh at the big Classic Bike show in Stafford, UK, last October. They looked good quality and are not mad money, but not sure how much they would end up costing you in the US. The distance, centre to centre, between the cable nipple and lever pivot was quoted to me as 26.5mm or 1.04". In my opinion, this is just about at the upper limit for Commandos, and should give you an OK pull on the clutch.

Dave

I always try very hard to remove Japanese looking parts from my Seeley. I use a japanese rear caliper and master cylinder and I'm very aware that they are on the bike. My tacho is off an RG250, and looks like a fifties racing item, however it has got 'made in japan' in minute letters on the face, and I can't get it apart to paint them out. My two front discs are off a Suzuki, however are not obvious. My front levers are a Dougherty clutch, and a Lockheed master. Nothing looks worse than a classic British bike with obviously Japanese parts all over it. You know immediately that it is non-genuine.