Brake component with a hand-operated brake lever for operating a brake cylinder

A brake component with a hand-operated brake lever for actuating a handbrake in particular of a bicycle or a motorcycle or the like, wherein the brake lever comprises:

• a lever body extending in a longitudinal direction with a lever element formed thereon for manually applying pressure to the brake lever in order to trigger a braking effect;
• wherein a proximal part of the lever element comprises at least one bearing point;
• and wherein a distal part of the lever element is designed and provided to be manually subjected to tensile force by the user in order to cause a braking effect by a pivot movement about a pivot axis of the bearing point;
• a hollow chamber structure extending in a transverse direction is formed in the lever body adjacent to the bearing point, runs transverse to the longitudinal direction of the lever element and transverse to the pivot axis in order to provide a predetermined breaking point of the lever element in the region of the hollow chamber structure so that in the event of an impact, the lever element breaks at this predefined proximally arranged predetermined breaking point;
• and a second bearing point is formed on the lever body adjacent to the first bearing point;
• and wherein the hollow chamber structure is formed between the first and second bearing point.