gerry burgess brakes

[billkilpatrick]

anyone seen this strip of metal attached to the brake lever assembly before? i assume it's there to keep the brake cable from rubbing against the metal housing of the brake lever assembly but ... wouldn't a slightly longer piece of metal tubing in the gromet at the end of the rubber cable covering do just as well?

 

[Spokesmann]

Not seen that before, was it some sort of support for rubber half-hoods?

 

[billkilpatrick]

i'm pretty sure it's simply a low-tech method of keeping the grommet at the end of the brake cable in the hole in the brake lever housing attached to the handlebar. a grommet with a longer piece of tubing would have done as well, me thinks.

that's not to say there wasn't something similar on half-hoods - added support, perhaps.

most memories are dim these days but i have a dim recollection of these being fitted to the brake lever assemblies on the "gitane" i bought, lo' those many years ago ('74 or '75).

 

[daccordimark]

I agree with Spokesmann - Mafac used that as a method for retaining their half-hoods, that's how they were attached on my Mafac levers.

Mark.

 

[billkilpatrick]

ze plot thickens ...

would consensus be that they're not really needed?

 

[Spokesmann]

If it work well without them, leave them off, they are not going exactly feel good in the hands though especially for a rider like me who is always on the hoods.

 

[billkilpatrick]

i'm awaiting the delivery of a pair of hoods, in gum, naturally ... but the italian post is sloooooow and the days and nights which intervene are looooooong ...