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Anyone with enough grip strength to cause either to bend significantly either needs to take up Olympic weightlifting or reconsider their solitary lifestyle
The forces involved are bigger than you think, thanks to the mechanical advantage of the levers. The strength test in the safety standard implies a reaction at the pad/rim interface of about 4kN
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I have a pretty good idea of the forces involved. After all, they wouldn't work in slowing you down otherwise. However, it's a fairly short lever, and even the 926AL is a fairly chunky piece of aludiddlium. I'm sure there is a difference, but whether it would actually be discernable to mere mortals, I'd need convincing by some fairly solid FEA work or real life experience, neither of which I have.
Brommers
They're probably fiddlier to set up. But I suspect that in a blind test, 95% of people would be unable to tell the difference from one to the other. They're basically just a metal stick with a pivot on one end and a clamp/cable stop on the other end. Anyone with enough grip strength to cause either to bend significantly either needs to take up Olympic weightlifting or reconsider their solitary lifestyle.