I am looking at levers for my 88 Haro. I know the tech 7's are the right piece but the tech 77's seem like they would do for a while. What year did the 77's come out? Was it late 80's?

I heard it was some time in 88. Rumor has it that the tech 7 aerial design had problems with breaking of the 'puzzle piece' clamp, so they were redesigned with the hinge. All my magazine subscriptions expired in 87. I still rode in 88 but I wasn't looking at the new stuff at all so I'm not positive. I've seen a lot of 88 builds with tech 77's but that might just be because of the rarity of tech 7's.

Yep.. they came out in 1988,
I personally like the feel of Tech 7s better.. but I always hated that weird puzzle piece clamp.

Strangely enough, I was actually wondering the very same thing today (or was it yesterday?). I'm glad to know now.
Thinking of what to put on my new rider. I forgot about it until Pauly said something, but now I recall cracking my old ones at the puzzle clamp BITD. Upon comparing the two side-by-side and even overlapped, there is really almost no difference in the two levers, besides the clamping mechanism, which held them each about the same distance away from the bar/grip. There is only a slight difference in the squeezing part of the lever, in that the earlier Tech 7 has a bit more of an arch to it...that, and the "ball" at the end of the Tech 77 is a bit more oval and pronounced.
I agree, Chromey - minimal differences not withstanding- I do prefer the feel of the Tech 7. I'll probably end going with the 77's on my new rider, though, so I know I won't crack 'em.

Pic anyone? Why not?

I've been riding with these for so long. I have cracked some too long ago by the puzzle piece part, these have lasted though, the bodies anyway. I switched out the handle part long ago too. That's what would break on me most of the times. They would bend and I'd bend them back, of course getting weaker and eventually cracking off.




They're so scraped up it looks like that left one may have fused together, lol. I haven't had the need to move them or take them off in years. They clamp on real tight.

Good, then they will be a good choice for an '88 Master. I am trying to keep all the pieces from no later than 1988 if possible. Thanks for the info.

I love the puzzle piece look of the tech 7, also love the feel.

I never had a set back in the day as I started riding in 88 and by 90 everyone was riding tech 77's.

So I've never broken one yet.

I plan on replacing my 77's with tech 7's on my rider bikes for something different.

On my 86 master the original tech 5's or 6's (I belive) I kept snapping them on crashes so I replaced them with tech 7 that snapped too. replaced then again when the tech 77's came out and never had a problem.

I thought Tech 7's came out in 87? I thought they were the levers on the 87 GT PFT. I have a survivor PFT that is (I believe) equiped with all original parts (except what I've replaced) and it's got Tech 7's. Also, my last PFT had Tech 77's, but I thought those were on there because the original equipment Tech 7's were so hard to find.

Tech 7's did come out in 87. Reread the title of the thread.
Tech 77's came out in 88.

Oops. All these 7's are confusing me, I think I might be a bit dyslexic.