Quick Tip for Resetting Controls Let's face it, sooner or later you are going to have an off. If you don't you're not trying hard enough! Dropping your bike off road will often mean the handlebars take a hit. If your controls are attached too tight, the force of the impact can bend or even snap levers and damage expensive mounting brackets. Your options? - fit specialist levers that bend both ways (expensive) - carry spare levers (OK a good idea but what about the mounting brackets?) or set your bike up with the controls on a light torque setting so they slip if they take a hit. I do the last one (though I still carry spare levers!). I set the controls in position and torque them to 7 N.m which is fine for grip but slips if the fixture takes a hard knock. I use a permanent pen to mark the clamps ensuring they can be quickly repositioned on the bars and to the angle I am accustomed to. The image shows the RH front brake lever clamp. The clamp is deliberately secured with light torque settings so that during a crash the lever will spin with the clamp rather than snap.

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