I have a set of M785 XT’s and I could cope with the shorter lever over the grip shift before but after a recent bad break of my thumb Im having real trouble reaching across with my fingers and getting the strength I need into the lever.

Just wondered if anyone knows of a way to get a longer lever onto these brakes?

3x Is this a new record?

spoon handle based extension held on with some shonky carbon fibre?

Shimano’s ‘touring’ brakes have longer levers. You’d probably need to buy a whole new master cylinder to fit to your caliper, or just buy a new brake and sell the old one. You might find somewhere that can bring in just an LX lever too if you’re lucky.

Like this:

Not sure what your on about Buzz. Cheers Warpcow have thought of that, apparently there would be a change to the power of the brakes as the M type are quite different to the T type brakes.

Shame you cant just buy the levers. Might have to go this way if nothing else presents.

Not sure what your on about Buzz

you posted the thread 3 times.

Ah right 😀 weird only pressed it once.

My XT’s I ordered from germany seem to have long levers for some reason I would prefer short levers

What model are they? Potential swap?

BR-M785 Could do a swap if you wanted to sort something out

My mistake mines one with trekking levers

Deores also available in 3 finger lever now, BL-T615 code, £26.99 ea.

It m_t_b doesn’t want to swap I think I will buy some and sell my long levers as they could do with a bleed anyway

Any chance of a pic of yours ? When did you buy them? Mine are about 5 moths old. Email in profile.