Chinese long levers for 99 fzs600

[70s kid]

Hi all. Can anyone tell me if another Yamaha uses the same levers as the 99 fazer 600. Trying to find some folding extendable ones (Silver with blue adjusters). "PLEASE HELP"   70s Kid (Paul)

[JoeRock]

There's shit loads on ebay for the Fazer mate?

[Fraser]

Hi Paul, I understand your problem , I had the same, I bought a clutch lever bracket for a Suzuki SV and bought a pair of levers for an SV, £ 19.99 delivered,when I get a min I will post link to a very nice chinese man on EBay, Fraser

[Fraser]

Hi Paul, search ebay item number 350648542254  he's even got sale on at the moment, so a lot less than £20 delivered. read his instructions and specify colour and length, got mine within 2 weeks, look good and feel soo much better.

[His Dudeness]

I know everyone says these cheap levers are great but the thoughts of swaping to them makes me laugh. The one thing that you definitely want to be top quality 100% reliable never going to fail is the brake lever :lol But  foc it sure lets stick 10 quid made in China levers on :lol

[Exupnut]

I know wot u mean dudeness fair point. I paid 40 shekels for mine 18 munf ago and had no drama apart from the finish comin away a bit on the left selector. Good buy imo.

[noggythenog]

Thats the same ones i got exup & im happy with that as i don't even do rain riding.i think the movements are really positive & toyt....toyt loyk a toyger.


On the basis of my chocolate yamaha handlebars & levers id say equal quality but i suppose time will tell.


P.S im only adding Blue bits to try & slow me down a bit! :b

[His Dudeness]

They do look the business and they're probably fine, lots of people use them but to me it seems like using them is creating a potential failure point where there wasn't one before.

[noggythenog]

Im with you Dude


but i crashed mine & they got bent.


I am the weak point :lol


I am weak!!! :'(

[His Dudeness]

Don't worry noggy we've all hit the deck at some point and don't forget chicks dig scars!

[noggythenog]

He he


Well coz im hard, & like you say chicks dig it.....i picked my scab off!...showed my missus...got a bollocking! :rolleyes , she works in the vets, says i'll get a nasty scar..tried telling her that was the point...oh well...now she's gonna put me down , she still gives me a Bonio!, & a dog biscuit too! :b

[His Dudeness]

Be careful or she'll stick one of those cones on your head :lol

[Lumpy]

I know everyone says these cheap levers are great but the thoughts of swaping to them makes me laugh. The one thing that you definitely want to be top quality 100% reliable never going to fail is the brake lever :lol But  foc it sure lets stick 10 quid made in China levers on :lol

well... I paid 130 squid for my Pazzos for my other bike and compared them to a 30 squid pair from hong kong and there wasn't much in it. With your wisdom,you would probably pay 60 quid plus for exactly the same lever cos you are confusing price with quality, you wouldn't be able to tell. You have probably already bought far Eastern stuff unwittingly unless you always buy gen yam. Kafas unite

[His Dudeness]

You seem to know a lot about what I'd buy. Was that you going through my bins last night? :lol I'm not confusing anything I'm just saying I wouldn't swap the yamaha levers for chinese copy levers. Hope that's ok with you?

[Lumpy]

You seem to know a lot about what I'd buy. Was that you going through my bins last night? :lol I'm not confusing anything I'm just saying I wouldn't swap the yamaha levers for chinese copy levers. Hope that's ok with you?

absolutely, I'm just saying they are fine in my experience, hope you're okay with that 


They are pretty good, but I respect your choice, not sure I would put them on my other bike but I know people that have done 50 000 hard miles using them. Same spec material, same type of CNC machining and so on. Thankfully we all have a choice.

[Exupnut]

And i hope thats ok with you....if your ok with that lol

[darrsi]

I always find that once you buy a set of Chinese levers, i feel like buying another set about an hour later........ :b

[Lumpy]

I always find that once you buy a set of Chinese levers, i feel like buying another set about an hour later........ :b

great reply. Love it

[Punkstig]

No probs with mine!

[simonm]

Time to stick my oar in and get a mouthful  :b

I'd say there main aspects to this are price/ethics and quality/reliability.

Price & Ethics
The main benefit of paying less for this in China is mainly due to, in my opinion, child labour and/or environmental disregard (churning out polluted water/air) this is the ethics dilemma, by buying from the far east you are improving the eastern economy at the cost of European jobs and supporting communism.

Quality & Reliability
I think pretty much any developed country has access to aluminium billet and CNC machines.  The aluminium and plastic quality will be down to the design and specification, neither of which you will know.  There is also the design, which may have been tested on a functional basis, but possibly not on a durability basis.

Conclusion
By buying a cheap third party unit you risk premature failure, design weakness and/or lack of process control/QA, by buying a higher quality (possibly european) part you will most likely have the benefit (read beaurocracy) of more testing and quality control but at a monetary cost.  The chinese and/or Japanese parts may be perfectly functional and fulfil your needs but you'll only be able to tell by rolling the dice and seeing how they last.  Of course on ebay you could also buy a set of Yamaha levers to find that they were copies of the higher quality items anyway.

Of course the specification and the design could have been done in the USA or UK and they just produce them, but how would you know ?

Don't get me wrong, China creates a lot of very high quality parts and can do so cheaply, but the cheapness is unethical :-)..... (now I'm off to ebay to buy some cheap knock off Chinese levers)