Have had the 1200S for a couple of weeks now. The only thing I am having trouble with is the levers. It came with short ASV levers which are probably the chunkiest best quality levers I have ever seen but I find I struggle to hold on to them, not sure why but they seem really short.... So I am going to change them and so far have considered: ASV long ones. Probably about £150 Pazzos - probably near enough the same Puig - £82. Assume they must be pretty good as their screens are great. Titax - about £100. Have seen a few people compaining about them quality wise. Evotech - think it was £110. So recommendations please! Obviously I should recoup a bit for the old ones...
Chinese ones - loads on eBay - just make sure to choose the right length and colour! As little as £15.
Hi Deaks, not sure. I think they are pretty much immaculate. New they are £150 odd so probably about £100 I would guess??
I have eBay Chinese specials on my 999, which are Pazzo copies. When they arrived I was really gutted because I realised I'd not actually ordered the short ones I thought I had However, they turned out to be perfect They look great, black with red adjusters, and make the oem Brembo levers look seriously ungainly and ugly. They are shorter than oem but work beautifully with two fingers or four and look, as my brother in law would say, look like they growed there. They are very nicely made from cnc'd alloy and so accurately that transferring the oem plungers to the new levers, which have a very different design for attaching them, required no adjustment at the master cylinder whatsoever - plug and play. Couldn't be happier with them. In fact, if someone told me that the Chinese factory that manufactures Pazzos just make rather more than they supply to Pazzo, then flog 'em cheap, I'd be inclined to believe them...
This ^ Some people have a real thing against these levers "would you trust your life with this cheap garbage" pretty much sums up what the haters say, but I've had these on four of my bikes and they've always been perfect. Dare I say it, I've even fitted some to my Panigale and just as pleased with them as I have been on my other bikes. £15 delivered for the pair is such good value.
The issue that I have had with cheap levers is the quality of the anodising. After one week in Spain the black anodising turned bronze. Unfortunately it wasn't an even colour change and some parts of one lever stayed black. They were Pazzo copies. If you aren't planning to go somewhere where the sun is strong then the anodising on cheap levers will probably be fine. After the cheap levers I got some V-Trec variable length flip up levers. Their anodising coped perfectly with the Spanish summer sun.
i have v-treks on my 748 (adjustable in length but not flip up) and the are great.. i really like em.. not cheap but at 100 quid not to bad i think. i bought em from a german outfit on ebay (perhaps vtrek themselves) and they came with the wrong bases for my bike, but one email and 4 or 5 days later the correct ones were delivered foc..
I wouldn't touch cheap Chinese levers !! ...back in September my best mate fitted a pair to his 08 fireblade, 3000 miles on the clock, which he had just bought a week earlier ( nothing wrong with the bike) the pin from the lever came out & jammed the piston in the cylinder, jamming the front brake on, he was very lucky not to hit the Tarmac !! Chinese levers had been a topic on the fireblade Facebook page, quite a few dodgy episodes reported on there too.
Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't the levers you replace just a solid piece of metal? I.e they have no moving parts or pins in them (apart from the adjusters that just dictate the lever position) and they use the standard fittings? Sounds more like they weren't fitted properly rather than the actual lever failing. The ones I had fitted to my CBR 600 were perfect btw.. Look, some people won't fit them, I get that, it's up to you if you would trust something so cheap that performs such an important function and it's great we have a choice, but for me I don't particularly want to spend big bucks on the more expensive levers that probably come out of the same factories as the cheap ones. Each to their own and all that!
More than enough evidence for them to be a risk, I've seen first hand & read about Simple decision to make for me really, but as has been said, it's all down to personal choice But to be quite honest, when people are willing to pay £1000's for a bike, why in Gods name would they put a pair of bunky cheap & NASTY levers on it !!?? ...I just don't get it..
Thanks Ozz Do you know if they are the C5 models. Are they the black ones? A few pics would probably help me decide. Thanks in advance Deaks
Unless the actual lever itself snaps I don't see how they would be he cause of the failure unless they're not fitted correctly as all you're replacing is a solid piece of metal with another solid piece of metal that fits into a pivot. No idea why people would fit cheap nasty levers, maybe ask someone who has fitted cheap nasty levers as opposed to the excellent and good value ones I've fitted [emoji6]
I'm glad you did see sence & decided not to fit an inferior quality product ( being cheap & nasty Chinese levers ) Ride safe : )
They are black and short. Other than that I have no idea! Have ordered some V Trec ones which will hopefully be here shortly at which point I will change them over and take some piccies, work out a proper price and you can have first refusal......
If you are interested in the best levers for the multi, in my opinion, although they are pricey, the DP ones are the best. Ducati Billet Folding Brake/Clutch Levers: 96880011B Had both the Pazzo and the ducabike ones one my PP. These for me are the best with the best feel and ergonomics. Andreas
I nearly fell off my chair at that price. Cheap chinese ones for me, have fitted loads without any problems.
I've done around 20,000 miles across 3 bikes on Chinese levers with no issues. True the anodizing faded a little on my first set, but they spent days in sun for months. As the parts that actuate the brakes and clutch are taken from the OEM levers, I can only see problems being caused by poor adjustment. I can see no way for this part to come loose on the Multi levers so have no safety concerns.
