After braking reservoirs and levers on my old ProClimbs, I went with TKI on my Gen4's for all the same reason you did. I love that Doo has gone to an adjustable lever for the Gen5, but you can't buy just the lever -you HAVE to buy the entire cylinder assembly. The Gen5 Expert has the res protector stock, but I'm looking forward to Tom at TKI coming out with a metal, adjustable and heated lever! :)
Up in BC lots of guys run the Munster Brake resevoir, it replaces the plastic totally and seems to fix the problem well. Little bit mroe work than just bolting on the TKI though.
Munster is a good option. I’m glad they added a second hold down bolt for the reservoir. I didn’t think just the one factory bolt would be sufficient from taking a hit. You
Not a hardcore rider here, but one time my buddy broke the plastic brake lever off on a rental M8000 😆Luckily we were not far from the trail and we found one at a dealership to replace it. In my opinion the plastic levers themselves are a designed point of failure so that the cylinder housing/mount doesn't bust off the bars or break off the lever pivot. An aluminum lever can probably take a small hit that a plastic one couldn't, but if you get to the force required to break an aluminum one, other stuff probably breaks first. The plastic reservoirs I don't quite get though, I have never seen a metal one break off but clearly your demo shows that the plastic one on the Doo is not very tough 😬
You always have to think about what the next weakest link is when you strengthen one part. You have to take a really hard hot to brake off the whole hand brake, seen it once in 20 years.
After braking reservoirs and levers on my old ProClimbs, I went with TKI on my Gen4's for all the same reason you did. I love that Doo has gone to an adjustable lever for the Gen5, but you can't buy just the lever -you HAVE to buy the entire cylinder assembly. The Gen5 Expert has the res protector stock, but I'm looking forward to Tom at TKI coming out with a metal, adjustable and heated lever! :)
The adjustable lever on the new doo looks great. TKI just added the heated lever to the website, otherwise I would have put one in the video.
Up in BC lots of guys run the Munster Brake resevoir, it replaces the plastic totally and seems to fix the problem well. Little bit mroe work than just bolting on the TKI though.
Munster is a good option. I’m glad they added a second hold down bolt for the reservoir. I didn’t think just the one factory bolt would be sufficient from taking a hit. You
Broke my resy off in the super steep, not fun with no brakes!!! Great denomination of how fragile they really are
If you ride in the mountains and haven’t broken one, you will.
If you ride in the mountains and haven’t broken one, you will.
The doo reservoir brakes pretty easy. Guess that’s why doo started putting covers on some of the 2023 mtn sleds.
Not a hardcore rider here, but one time my buddy broke the plastic brake lever off on a rental M8000 😆Luckily we were not far from the trail and we found one at a dealership to replace it. In my opinion the plastic levers themselves are a designed point of failure so that the cylinder housing/mount doesn't bust off the bars or break off the lever pivot. An aluminum lever can probably take a small hit that a plastic one couldn't, but if you get to the force required to break an aluminum one, other stuff probably breaks first. The plastic reservoirs I don't quite get though, I have never seen a metal one break off but clearly your demo shows that the plastic one on the Doo is not very tough 😬
You always have to think about what the next weakest link is when you strengthen one part. You have to take a really hard hot to brake off the whole hand brake, seen it once in 20 years.