Ebay recommendation

[Bluepete]

Just fitted this to the SV in place of the tatty old one which was a bit wonky. I ordered it, titanium, bespoke size, thread length, knurled barrel, on Tuesday evening and it arrived today, exactly as per my spec! Got it from this guy on Ebay Twelve quid posted 1st class!

[Stu]

Oh no, replacing random bits of metal with titanium.
This is not mountainbike.org y'know

So you had a test ride? - What's the top speed now?


Only joking, looks nice, but would look rather out of place on my bike

[Bluepete]

Yeh, I know, bit of bling, but what the hell. To be honest, what with the lower footpegs, new boots and my wonky knee, I was having a lot of trouble changing down. This new spangly bit allows the gear lever to be a lot lower 'cos it's 10mm longer than stock.

And anyway, MY bike only does 70mph!

Originally Posted by BluePete

MY bike only does 70mph in 50mph limits!

[Stu]

Originally Posted by BluePete

Yeh, I know, bit of bling, but what the hell. To be honest, what with the lower footpegs, new boots and my wonky knee, I was having a lot of trouble changing down. This new spangly bit allows the gear lever to be a lot lower 'cos it's 10mm longer than stock.

If you take it off there, you can reattach it at a different angle to raise or lower the gear lever.
Be careful, however you do it with ground clearance if you lower it too much.

Ohh could have saved you, what ?12?

And anyway, MY bike only does 70mph!

Thanks for putting this up, I need one of those!! Lovely.

I need some twelve pound Ti in my life. sounds cheap, how much did it weigh?

Has anyone fitted a shorter lever? How much toe effort with less leverage does it take (apparent, I understand the physics )? I always ride with my toes on the pegs and find the lever a large reach away, especially left handers, I like to avoisd the toe-tarmac interface.

[Bluepete]

Tim, all the length of the rod determines is where you can position the gear peg. The SV oem is too short to allow the peg to be lowered enough for me.
A shorter rod would make the position higher, with no change to the effort needed. The amount of effort required would be determined by the distance between where the rod fixes onto the pedal, just below the pivot point. I can't see any way to change that.

Oh, I wasn't so sad that I weighed it, but I would guess at about, oooh, say 42 grammes?

Apologies, I hadn't opened the link, I thought you had a whoile Ti gear lever, a steal at 12 GBP, I'll give the bit of rod a miss for now, but useful if fitting rearsets etc.

mmmmmm Shiny Unobtanium parts