Modern motorcycles have incredibly powerful braking ... which is very easy to do using the Actron vacuum pump (see the wBW review). We left the bike overnight with the front brake lever in the ...

Moving to the current millennium, it was to have the shifting action up on the hoods like all modern shifting systems ... The shifters are essentially Tektro-branded brake levers with the shifter ...

mountain and cyclocross bikes require both front and rear brakes - along with the hand levers used to activate them. Although this doesn't pose much of a challenge for most riders, it does for ...

If you’re keeping the same brakes on your bike it’s a case of simply finding a long or short pull lever. You’ll need new cables though, as flat bar brakes use a barrel, whereas road levers ...

You can split “modern” bikes (ie. since World War II ... Sure, there were innovations like indexed shifting, integrated shifter/brake levers, and more powerful brakes; but drivetrains were ...