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Personally I like my levers with only a very small amount of pull but I’m sure most people don’t like that.
Given my experience with tendon injuries, coupled with the lack of sufficient adjustment on most brake levers*, I’ve tried to set up new brakes with 1 full turn of the calliper barrel so that I can quickly adjust to a customer’s smaller hand size (also using the reach adjustment bolt). Good results but frowned on by my peers. (Shrug)
*Sold two bikes to a couple where he was 6’ 5” and she was 5’ 4”, massive hand size difference.
Eseman
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e. The important part is to pull the lever as hard as yuh can to pre-stretch the cable and compress the outer housing, then the rider can use the barrels to take up the pad wear. Personally I like my levers with only a very small amount of pull but I’m sure most people don’t like that.