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    DEFENDER HAND BRAKE

    CAN ANYONE TELL ME IS IT POSABLE TO MOVE THE HAND BRAKE HANDLE TO SOME WHERE OTHER THAN WERE IT IS
    ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT
    RERGARDS SEYMOUR

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    I guess that depends on where else you plan for it to be.

    If it's just the handle in the way perhaps you could convert (customise?) to series 2 style where the handle is short, straight and close to the floor through the existing hole. If you were really determined could probably convert it to cable activation and mount the handle almost anywhere.

    Don't know what mounting it somewhere else would achieve as usually creates some other problem, as happens with most things that get fiddled with. :?

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    let me guess. is it hitting your leg?






    get used to it.......it'll become comfortable after a while
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    I think it can be moved.
    If I remember corectly it can be shifted down to the floor.

    Someone here is sure to know for sure but.
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    I've read reviews of Defenders which say the handbrake hits your knee.
    This leads me to conclude either:
    1) The reviewer is very very short, or
    2) The reviewer has had the lower part of his left leg removed, or
    3) The reviewer has never driven a Defender, but has read stories written by persons 1 or 2.

    We all know, of course, that it impacts the lower thigh, shin area. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

    Yes, it can be uncomfortable.

    Yes, you'll cope. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]
    It's not broken. It's "Carbon Neutral".


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    back when i first got the 110, i thought it was uncomfortable, so i slipped a bit of armaflex(or whatever your favourite brand of neoprene pipe insulation might be) over the handle, this was great for long trips when your leg tended to settle on to the hand brake and it would start to get really hot because one of the exhaust pipes ran straight past it, and it would start burning a crease into your leg.
    used to it now though :wink:
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