[CR]What do you call this part? Tandem, "dummy-brake-thingies"?

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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:47:16 -0400
Thread-Topic: What do you call this part? Tandem, "dummy-brake-thingies"?
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From: "Anderson, Robert" <randerson2@grey.com>
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Subject: [CR]What do you call this part? Tandem, "dummy-brake-thingies"?

Greeting CR listers,

I have in my posession a pair of aluminum knobs with handlebar clamps and gum rubber hoods that read "Dia-Compe." I suppose that they are dummy brake lever bodies? hoods? for tandem stokers, but what exactly are they called? I assume that these are on-topic, but only cause they look so "non-ergonomic."

Would one of you kind folks please help fill this gap in my cycling vocabulary?

Oh yeah, a link to an image might help.

http://home.earthlink.net/~adelphi368/images/diacompe.jpg

Thanks,
Rob Anderson
Brooklyn, NY