[Skydakine]

I found my bike on its side in a parking lot. The tip-over bent the brake lever among other things. Curious to see what would happen, I put the pivot end of the bent lever in a vice, slipped some galvanized pipe over the ball end and very slowly was able to bend it straight again. It didn't snap off, as I thought it would. I may have been very lucky but it did work for me.