WARNING: Cheap after-market levers...been meaning to post this for ages. BEWARE or at least be careful! They can on the face of it look good but cheap levers (as low as £18 each ) can potentially be a problem....some even dangerous. Check the fitment and action and check them regularly. They usually lack toughened bearings for moving / contact parts, have too much slack in moving parts resulting in quick wear and tear. Well worth spending time looking at the following... https://www.sportbiketrackgear.com/the-truth-about-cheap-motorcycle-levers/
Load of scaremongering. I am sure that thousands of people have the cheap levers and have no problem at all with them, well I would say that because I don't sell expensive ones! I have a similar pair to the cheap ones on my 939 Supersport, they have been on for three years and 30,000 miles with no problem. They might have a little more play in the bearings than the expensive ones, but hell you should see the play in the levers fitted to any older bike, my 1967 250 M3 has loads of it and I have not died yet. I suppose that we should pay hundreds of pounds for some other manufacturer to buy a batch from China, put a 500% mark up on them and then paint a different name on them. Have a look and see where a very expensive iphone was made.
Just saying be careful....some clearly are manufactured from inferior materials, to poor specs and/or a poor design. The example shown in the video may be extreme but awarenesses of the potential for issues with anything to do with braking is worth being aware of.
I didn't even mention China....lots of stuff manufactured for quality brands to decent specifications. ....and then there's all the poor copies that have never undergone any testing or met any manufacture or safety standards.
I don’t get the fascination with levers personally. Those stubby shitters especially. The fold up ones smash yours hands. The harder wearing ones shag the master cylinder instead of the lever. Ive always just used the stock clutch lever and whatever comes on the master cylinder (usually Brembo).
