London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

Was going to fit dirt harrys to the fixed, but the change of frame has brought with it a minor change of colour scheme. Lots of caliper levers out there like the harrys with silver lever on black bracket, I may just decide to strip and polish, but can anyone point to nice silver levers? Lust after Paul Loves, but £££ ouch.

I saw some on ebay (think they might have been tektro) that were like dirty harrys, but all silver.
Think they were cheap enough, and the quality looked decent.

gold finger

Chris, do they do the gold fingers just in silver? All I have found or seen are gold/black, silver/black or black/black?
Cheers.

oddyssey do a nice silver 2 finger lever.

its called the odyssey mono lever and is avail in chrome and cost around £12.99 .

i thought you where after sliver/ black... i dont know of a straight sliver...

i fancy a gold one for my current build unless any one can point me towards a blue/black 1 or 2 finger lever.

I have these....
http://biddlebikes.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=296_300_153&products_id=185
just be warned that if you order them from this shop don't be surprised if you don't get them for 3 weeks, which is how long it took to get mine.
I have now switched the brake cable to be on the other (correct) side of the lever :)

Just go crazy and get a pink one. :D

that's the side it's supposed to be on? ahhhh of course, that makes way more sense... but doesn't the cable get in the way?

i was looking for a picture of these in silver to stick up on here. mine has a black 'body'.

they aren't all that stiff though.

Cheers for that seems a def possibility.

I really like the Specalized ones - they have a good shape and use a bolted pivot (not rivetted) so easy to strip and adjust. Find they have a better feel than the Cane Creek ones. This pic shows two - obviously not run like, it was done to show the advantage of using a shimmed 31.8 (OS) lever with a 26.4 Cinelli size bar (- lever can go right up to the stem leaving much more hand room on the tops:

do they make them in shiny, or did you do that

No, they are chemically stripped and polished.

I like those... I got a goldfinger, but it's a bit lumpy

what stripper did you use? i want to do some thing like that for my girls bike, give her a good strong break lever, but make it sliver and shiny

Ah, bugger, that explains why I couldn't find any. I'm guessing caustic soda and lots of polishing?
Has anyone ever tried striping dirty harrys? The mounts seems coated, I think its either thick paint or palstic.

Most modern stuff whether it is black or even silver is anodized which cannot be polished - you need to strip the anodizing off first to get to the bare aluminium. A strong alkali like caustic soda is used to dissolve the anodizing. Take care though - nasty stuff, protect your eyes especially.

For polishing a proper bench polisher is obviously easier but you can do it by hand - eBay search for 'Belgom Alu'.

Spec' levers like many bike bits are shot-peened too which makes it a bit more faff to cut back and get an even shine.

odyssey mono lever comes in 3 lever styles too. trigger, 2 finger, small (the nice one).

Also neat but with some black to polish off is are the profile unbranded levers. This place sell them individually and I'm probably going to give them a call tomorrow for one.

This is how a Paul lever looks polished

did someone mention my bad ass out of focus puppies??



Not as nice as the paul above... but close :P

odyssey mono levers in chrome you say, i've looked high and low online, no luck.

any places you can recommend to try?

http://www.rideskateboardingbmx.com/...MONOLEVER.html

EDIT: looks like the two finger version, not sure if you wanted the small.

Got one of these for sale, home polished....



Right hander.

Jol, I need that lever... I'll take it if OP or subsequent dibbers don't want it...
I've also got an unused Paul Comp lever, anyone interested?
edit: I need a LH one... :(

yup probably- price/ colour?

LH, silver and black, it's been opened so I'll knock a fiver off... £25...

was a good thread to resurrect :)

i'll take that lovely shiny right hander off your hands jol! :) pm me what you're looking for.

If eyebrows doesn't want it, I'll take it. Pay day is in two days. LOL.

Teenslain. If the OP don't want it it's yours.

It's a leftie.

I can't get the money in time teenslain.
Hars can have it :(

Is that a Skateboard truck rubber i spy on the brake cable adjuster... i did that with an old variflex cloud..

lol.

where did you get those?!
paint them yourself? i was looking for something like that last week for my gf.

Hey Hars, eyebrows has nabbed that lever... Cheers dude, Joe

jol, what the hell were you wearing when you took that photo? :P ha ha ha

@t-s-b: beautiful.

Does anyone know who has a Paul lever in stock?

Paulcomp.com


:(

freshtripe are out of stock at the moment.

I think there might have been some at BLB a coupla days ago, give 'em a ring... 35GN if I remember rightly... They've got the hubs too, daft prices tho'...

once again let me bring in dia compe mx1000 levers do them in silver check out alans bmx they have old school stock classic two finger levers

These are nice, still trying to make a mount so I can use them with a road caliper

I seem to remember you had a lever knockin' about the place, Tynan?
What is it? I'm in the market for a neat and tidy lever (like the Specialized one ^^^ up there) to replace my clunky Dirty Harry...

Ha, got that reply when I posted on bikeforums too.

They are my 1960's typographic pyjamas.

nice! :D

Doh! No worries, he had first dibs.