Decided to change the levers on the bike and took a punt on the £20 levers from China. I had ASV ones on my previous bike but practically gave them away when I got rid of the bike so didn’t fancy spending £160 on a set again.
It took 1 week for the levers to arrive which was a surprise as i was expecting a 2/3 week wait, when they arrived they were well packaged and no surprise VAT charges which was nice.
First Impression
Upon opening them the finish was spot on, looking at them you wouldn’t think they cost just £20 but they did. The colours were nice and the lever felt very solid.
Install
Installation was easy, took me 15 minutes to get everything replaced and reconfigured. It would have been sooner but I forgot to take the spacer out of the original lever to put into the new one.
Fitting
The fit is perfect and sits as snug as the OEM ones and very comfortable to use. When I first installed them they had a lot of play but that was due to me forgetting about the spacers from the original levers.
Once I changed the spacers over the levers were perfect.
Conclusion
I’ve always preferred shorty levers but I was just too lazy to replace them. For £20 its worth a punt and for me it paid off, makes my private cockpit a bit more blingy but more importantly I finally have the comfort of short levers.
Hmm wonder what colour they will go after a bit of use… The last owner of my bike put on some Chinese ones - red with black adjusters… There now pink with fading black adjusters! Can’t wait to get some ASV’s fitted!
Ooooh… Aaaargh… China… monkey metal… they’ll snap in half when you use them in anger… you’re endangering your life fitting these things… quality’s rubbish… they’ll turn brown with rust and disintegrate… blah blah blah! :w00t:
i know loads of people with levers like these from china, yes they do discolor a bit, but they aint gonna snap:laugh: maybe when if you drop ya bike but that would be about it.
Had those type on my Sprint RS. They were lovely and had them on for over a year with no issues at all. made the clutch and brakes a joy to use with the decent range of adjustment available.
Imagine that. Company which mass produce all of these in China, done 1000000 levers for various bikes, as some importer company called ASV surprisingly does not have such a brilliant sale as they hope to have. So company in China end up with 700000 of unused, unsold levers. What they do. Add 100% and sell it without painting or power-coating or whatever packing it does the UK one.
And that how it works, is not uncle Ted pressing F5 on his eBay page or email account waiting for order and then he is off to the basement to fabricate lever for Robert from London. I guess that 80% of 3rd party parts is made buy some supplier more likely in China.
Very good find hope you will enjoy them as long as the £180 and finally idiots charging £180 for virtually similar item will go bust. Regardless to that you can buy another 8 sets and this may not even match but outrun the expensive one.
hope you will enjoy them as long as the £180 and finally idiots charging £180 for virtually similar item will go bust. Regardless to that you can buy another 8 sets and this may not even match but outrun the expensive one.