bend clutch lever and gearchange lever

[erix]

I let my gf learn mtc riding on my VTR250, eventually, she drop it...No surprise...not too bad tho...

clutch lever and gearchange lever are both bend, as in the pic. just wondering anyone know how to bend it back properly... Obivisouly, I dont have any professional tools...

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

[tl_tub]

You could heat the leaver in the oven and tap it with a hammer to bring it back straight. When i did this it worked very well but took about 4 cycles of heating and hammering to just do it gradually - dont want to break it!

[Ixion]

Are they steel or aluminium ?

[erix]

You could heat the leaver in the oven and tap it with a hammer to bring it back straight. When i did this it worked very well but took about 4 cycles of heating and hammering to just do it gradually - dont want to break it!

Great! I was also thinking heat it before I bend it...but didnt think of the oven...Cheers....

Are they steel or aluminium ?

The pic is up now... I think its steel...

[tl_tub]

The clutch lever certainly looks aluminium but im not sure about the gear change - that could be a more tricky one, but nothing a bit of brute force cant fix

[xwhatsit]

Clutch lever will almost certainly be aluminium on such a modern bike, and it'll just snap. You can get pattern replacements for perhaps $20 from your local bike shop.

I'd guess the gear lever is steel. It looks a simple little thing, though, no linkage of any sort, so I'd also have a gander at your motorcycle shop to see if they have anything. I know when I've been in Mt Eden Motorcycles they have similar looking gear levers to that; for MX bikes.

[James Deuce]

Bit of pipe over the end of the gear lever and you'll bend it straight no worries.

[T.W.R]

Just replace the clutch lever a bend that substantial even if it does straighten out most of the way is going to stress fracture either way. Take the gear lever off and straighten it in a vice is the easiest way otherwise doing it in place is likely to stress the gear lever shaft seals into the gearbox

[MaxB]

Get a new clutch lever if I were you.

As for the gear lever. Mark the position before removal and use a vice to straighten it. If you don't want vice marks on your lever use a guard or a piece of fabric to protect it.

[speedpro]

If the clutch lever is a quality forged item you will probably be able to straighten it by hammering the crap out of it. Take it off the bike first. If it isn't forged it'll snap. If you do replace it, spend the extra $5 and get a forged one. I've learnt my lesson.

[scumdog]

Get a new clutch lever if I were you.

As for the gear lever. Mark the position before removal and use a vice to straighten it. If you don't want vice marks on your lever use a guard or a piece of fabric to protect it.

A piece of plastic cut from a take-home oil pack is just jim-dandy for using as a protector for bits you want to clamp in the vice.

[Disco Dan]

I let my gf learn mtc riding on my VTR250, eventually, she drop it...No surprise...not too bad tho...

clutch lever and gearchange lever are both bend, as in the pic. just wondering anyone know how to bend it back properly... Obivisouly, I dont have any professional tools...

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

Yikes...

Heat it with a blow torch - get it nice and hot. Then wrap it in a rag and hold onto it by the rag on concrete floor and whack it with a hammer.

used that method twice now..

[erix]

Thanks for every inputs here...

I've fix the problem now by:

Clutch lever: Will buy a new one and fit it myself..

Gear lever(a lit more complicate): heated it...place it on the curb with a car park on it as a fixture, then hammer it...done....actually it was much easier than i thought, must be the heating part worked well....

Thanks for the help, back on the bike again....