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The lever is also great. Shape is good and the adjust screw can put it wherever you need it to be. Lack of return spring reduces hand fatigue, you need a well set up calliper to use a lever with no return spring though. I like running single brake on the duplex as it means I'm always carrying a spare barrel adjuster should I crash and break one, and I like that it shows part of the evolution of my set up in the empty barrel.
This still applies: "availability of spares and ease of communication with them is reassuring, should anything go wrong. Yep, they're a little more expensive, but they are made in small runs in a shed in California."