I've lost the handle

[Jamesh]

Do you have a coil of climbing rope and a folding grapnel anchor for those particularly stubborn Cornish climbs!!

I feel I cheated myself of some of those climbs on lejog!

Happy days

Cheers James

[Brucey]

......and the LH bar end fiction lever for the 3sp SA hub....

you just can't trust 'em, those fiction levers...

cheers

[reohn2]

I'd wait a day or two. Who knows what might turn up when you pick up.

The end that doesn't bark

[reohn2]

......and the LH bar end fiction lever for the 3sp SA hub....

you just can't trust 'em, those fiction levers...

cheers

Stop making stories up about our Mick

[PDQ Mobile]

Easily done.
Blame it on circumstance.

Though I'd look out for a secondhand (handy spare) or knackered one and use the handle from that.

[Mick F]

The Moulton was upside down for a few days. It sits nicely like that, and it was in the spare "bedroom" minding its own business waiting for me to apply some TLC.

The dog found himself at a loose end, and had a chew at bar end shifter as well as the bar tape a bit. Suitably told off of course, but he's only an eight month old border collie and rather wilful and playful.
Bar tape re-wrapped and sorted, but the shifter lever plastic cover has gone.

Oh Well .............................. to quote Fleetwood Mac.

[colin54]

Oh Well .............................. to quote Fleetwood Mac.

Perhaps a passing 'Albatross' flew away with it...Sun Racing is one of their preferred pastimes I believe
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=133551

[gaz]

... or just buy a new lever?

Pre-loved lever: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/sturmey-arch ... Sw1kxds0EK
No conncetion to seller, no further knowledge of item.

[reohn2]

Oh Well .............................. to quote Fleetwood Mac.

Perhaps a passing 'Albatross' flew away with it...Sun Racing is one of their preferred pastimes I believe
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=133551

At least The Chain's not broken

[gazza_d]

Like an earlier poster I would mould a new cover using Sugru.
It really is good stuff.

[pwa]

2 part modelling epoxy putty or some such. I would drill a couple of reasonable sized holes in the lever and mould the putty in to reduce the chance of it coming off.

Or the black epoxy stuff people get when they have gashed their plastic car bumpers on something. It makes a stiff black goo that you might plaster on, fashion roughly to shape with a lolly stick or similar, then sand when it's set.

Peetee's suggested modelling epoxy putty sounds a bit less messy though, and it has proved surprisingly tough since I used it to repair our tortoise a couple of years ago. He lost a front leg to a rat and I had to attach a small wheel to the front left side. It runs on a stainless steel rod axle that curls neatly under his carapace (shell) and is held there by epoxy putty I got from a modelling shop. He scampers around the garden almost as well as he did when he had four legs and the putty shows no signs of needing replacing. But obviously you will need to give it a bit of a key to grip onto. It really needs a few days to set fully.

[Mike_Ayling]

I just used a few wraps of the grey duct tape on my Surly LHT pre Thorn Mercury days.

Mike

[Mick F]

... or just buy a new lever?

Pre-loved lever: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/sturmey-arch ... Sw1kxds0EK
No conncetion to seller, no further knowledge of item.

Won't fit I would imagine.
Also, as it's a 3sp shifter, it may not index properly with my CS-RF3 3sp. The friction shifter I have is just that - friction.

Tight is 1st, slack is 3rd, and half-way is 2nd. I've marked the half-way position, and I tend to most of the riding in 2nd anyway.
With a "normal" SA 3sp shifter, the cable can obviously be adjusted to 2nd easily. It's whether it gets to 1st and 3rd properly that's the issue.

I did try it with a 3sp shifter and it was ok, but it is actually designed for an MTB triple chainring shifter ................... that won't fit on dropped 'bars, and you can't get them in thumb shifters.

Like an earlier poster I would mould a new cover using Sugru.
It really is good stuff.

https://sugru.com/buy
Impressive stuff!

I'd never heard of it before now. I'll give it some thought, but it'll be heatshrink first, and I'll see how I get on.
Meanwhile, I'll be on a ride later this morning. I may just wrap some PVC tape on it to start with.

[Bonefishblues]

IME Sugru's good stuff, but not quite up to its self-declared standards. It'd be fine in this application though.

[rjb]

Theres always these rubber covers,
the cheap Shimano ones


or the more upmarket Campag ones.


Available on flebay.