Adonised levers

[smellygerm]

Pazzo levers from sp engineering in Frome say stace sent you

[Dan505]

oooh discountage? 8-)
titax don't do my bike
will have a google

Cheers

[goz1960]

Black will look best.

[Jon_W]

Plain ally or black. Them's the rules.

[Senna(Dan)]

Go with the colour of your bars, although black looks best!

[Mitch9128]

+1 on black, there's loads of chinese billet levers on Ebay, had a pair on my last bike and have the folding ones on my current. Quality is superb, at a fraction of the cost.

[Nooj]

It's definitely worth upgrading to billet levers, much more of your squeezing effort will go to the brakes, rather than being absorbed by the flexible stock levers as they bend.

Be aware that cheap levers may be poorly anodised though, so the colour will fade over time (even the black ones).

[Mitch9128]

The Chinese ones i've seen, really are quality items, Just don't use Muc Off or similar on any anodising, it will strip it away.

[Dan505]

Won't really go for fleabay copies, not a snob but won't trust them for when i really need them to work

Billet? Another term for what i'm after? I'm bit thick so bear with me :P

Are they easy to fit?

[Scotty]

Billet is the term for the slab of rolled Aluminium that is produced by the manufacturing process. This is cut up into blocks of the appropriate size and from these blocks the desired components are machined using a CNC Milling machine. Rolled material has a defined grain structure and is stronger. The alternative would be die-cast aluminium levers (most standard levers are die-cast) - not as strong as billet as castings have no grain structure. Strong enough under normal use if the OE parts, but if from an unidentified source somewhere in China there's no guarantee of the quality of the material used in the casting, nor of the casting process itself (porosity etc.)
Fitting is a case of remove yours, fit the new ones (taking a few seconds to grease the pivot pin and clutch cable nipple). Simple as.