purpose of round tips on levers

[horsepwr]

Now that we have so many members with bikes. And some real badass machines at that, I thought I'd address something that I saw someone post a few weeks ago.
Someone mentioned that the little round tip broke off a lever or something, and that they didn't see any reason for it anyway. Those do have a pretty important purpose. Those round bulbs instead of coming to a point on the tip is to keep them from going through your hand or something in a crash.
So, it's good to get that replaced. I know allot of the show bikes have pointy levers and shyt, but you won't see those on the track. The stunters even make sure they have them on their little rear hand brakes.
Blunt tips instead of points can mean the difference of being impaled, or just bruised or broken.

[deepsouth]

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I put those break away levers on my boys Blaster so I didn't have to replace them as often

[horsepwr]

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I put those break away levers on my boys Blaster so I didn't have to replace them as often

I thought of those while i wrote this thread, and was gonna add that those are just so the rider can still make it through the race. Just the tips break away leaving the lever still functional for the rest of the race instead of the whole lever gettting tweaked out of commission. They have to have tips to start the race though.
It's just a safety feature. Anything can happen in a crash. Ya never know what's gonna land where, and what appendage might be in the way.

[FUZO]

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I bought these in blue

[jamescb77]

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ive got aftermarket levers also that on an impact will fold back. then you just have to pull them back down and they are good to go

[deepsouth]

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This is what I'm talking about- I'm sure they make them for street bikes:

http://www.denniskirk.com/jsp/product_catalog/Product.jsp?skuId=573647&store=Main&catId=115&productId=p573646&leafCatId=&mmyId=

[horsepwr]

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^Made by Renthal, I'd trust the quality.

[deepsouth]

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this is what we use to survive the wrecks and not have to keep replacing them. They make brakes and clutch levers- just a thought for you street guys

[Sal Paradise]

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Mine broke off a couple weeks back - I roughed up the end an put some epoxy on it to make it "round" again.
It's not as pretty but it still serve the fuction and it's not sharp - just a bit shortened.

I really like the Renthal pieces - those look like they make sense.


Sal

[O2BESOHUGE]

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WE WOULD ALWAYS GO AHEAD AND CUT THEM AND ROUND THEM OFF SHORT...THEY GET CAUGHT ON THE STARTING LINE WHEN YOU HAVE A FULL GATE. YOU ONLY NEED ENOUGH FOR A FINGER ANYWAY

HERES MY LITTLE BROTHER ON HIS 85 DOING A 110 FOOT "CANYON " JUMP...TALK ABOUT BALLZ!! OH TO BE YOUNG AGAIN!!



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[Dzone]

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wow!!!! Thats just plain amazing!!!

[deepsouth]

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Damn- that boy got some air

[O2BESOHUGE]

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HERES ANOTHER....HE LOVED TO JUMP THOSE THINGS...HE TOLD MOM THAT HE WAS MEANT TO BE INTHE AIR!!

[O2BESOHUGE]

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HERES ONE OF THE HONDA I GOT HIM...THIS ONE WAS BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN THE YZ HE HAD

[O2BESOHUGE]

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MORE STYLING IN THE AIR ON THE HONDA!!