How to protect brake lever when leaning the bike against a wall?

vwillrocku
vwillrocku Posts: 19
edited November 2017 in Road general
Hi all,
Is there any ways to protect brake lever from scratch when leaning the bike against a wall? I could replace handle bar tapes and plastic lever hood but I don't want to replace the expensive lever. Any protective film or plastic cover in the market could do the job? Thanks!

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  • keith57
    keith57 Posts: 164
    Lean just the back tyre against the wall, no other part of the bike need touch anywhere...
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  • type:epyt
    type:epyt Posts: 766
    If it’s for stability when storing in the house, a (clean) cycling sock does the job ... Our communal hallway and cupboard at our old flat had exposed brick walls and the sock was a cheap, easy, foolproof sollution (not so much when I was packing up my bike to sell, decided I was gonna keep it, bumped the back wheel and scraped the toptube on said brick wall so had to sell it) …
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  • trivial_poursuivant
    trivial_poursuivant Posts: 1,136
    If at home get a cheap stand rear wheel stand (the L shaped ones you rest the wheel on) I have half a dozen. As for when out and about, I usually don’t stop but if I need to, I find somewhere I can jam the rear tyre into at an angle and turn the front wheel inwards. That way it won’t fall over and won’t scratch the shifter or bars.
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    Where is that thread from the kid who couldn't lean his bike against things ?
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Seriously?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • lesfirth
    lesfirth Posts: 1,382
    I have a bike with 105 hydraulic brakes . The shifter only has to look at a brick wall to get scratched. I now have a bit of black duct tape on the vulnerable bit. I know it is there but I have to look carefully to see it.Stupid design.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Put a shoe box over the lever when parking it up.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • bendertherobot
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  • Tashman
    Tashman Posts: 3,496
    Just use the kickstand.
  • fenix
    fenix Posts: 5,437
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YKC_hDg2Zg
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    If I know I'm going to be parking in the same place for more than 2 nights I'll take a small mattress (one from a cot des the job nicely) and use that.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    My bike has been leaning against a wall for a couple of months now.
    Neither lever has come into contact with the wall. Your bike is set up incorrectly.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • lesfirth
    lesfirth Posts: 1,382
    PBlakeney wrote:
    My bike has been leaning against a wall for a couple of months now.
    Neither lever has come into contact with the wall. Your bike is set up incorrectly.

    Please enlighten me.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    i actually thought of this conondrum when recently re-decorating my house so instead of wallpaper I used bubble wrap.
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    lesfirth wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    My bike has been leaning against a wall for a couple of months now.
    Neither lever has come into contact with the wall. Your bike is set up incorrectly.

    Please enlighten me.
    I just took a look and there is two points of contact with the wall.
    The saddle and a bar end. No lever touching the wall. Can't see how it would.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • trekvet
    trekvet Posts: 223
    I'd english whip it with some cotton string from the ironmongers, then it will be protected wherever he goes. Not too thick a string, mind, as we don't want to increase weight :-(
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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Is an English whip the same as a windlass?
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Bubble wrapped in a vacuum chamber frame securely fastened to the wall is the only way to be certain.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Frank Wilson
    Frank Wilson Posts: 930
    I have taken a few bricks out of the wall so the handlebars protrude through the hole thus ensuring no chaffing.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    cycling cap over the shifters is what i now use on rides and yup bubble wrap when stored
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