Most handbrakes ask you to commit on day one. Short and sharp for drift. Long and progressive for rally. Firm and damped for hydraulic. Pick wrong, or simply change what you drive, and you buy the whole unit again.
TB-Neo removes that decision. It arrives complete at $139 and stays open from there.
The rubber spring barrel accepts different elastomers in any combination you want, exactly the way you tune a P1000 brake cylinder, and the P-ORP elastomers cross over between the two.
When you want more than mechanics, the mounting points are already there: a P-HPR linear haptic reactor for telemetry-driven feedback through the lever, or a P-HYS hydraulic module when you want real fluid damping. One-time investment, long-term iteration.
Tune it like a P1000
Anyone running P1000 pedals knows the routine. Open the barrel, restack the elastomers or spring, run a stint, adjust again. TB-Neo works on the same logic and uses the same tuning language.
The elastomer accessory pack runs a clear hardness ladder: yellow spring, green T-type, green O-ring, black O-ring, soft to hard. Load up to eight in the barrel, mix hardnesses front and rear, and the character of the pull changes with them. Every unit ships with four recommended schemes to start from:
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Scheme |
Combination |
Feel |
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A |
Yellow spring × 1 + green O-ring × 4 |
Light, smooth pull with quick return and long travel. |
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B |
Yellow spring × 1 + black O-ring × 4 |
Firm stop.nStrong return, a solid bottom-out, shorter travel. |
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C |
Green O-ring × 4 + black O-ring × 4 |
Dual-stage. Soft initial sink, then a firm wall late in the pull. |
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D |
Yellow spring × 1 + green T-type × 5 (hydraulic module only) |
Damped, linear response with true hydraulic character. |
Front elastomers shape the initial bite. Rear elastomers shape the wall at the end of travel. You are changing mechanics rather than sliders, so the feel changes with you. Recalibrate in SimPro Manager after a swap and you are back on track in minutes.
Add haptics with P-HPR
Bolt on a P-HPR or P-HPR GT linear haptic reactor and the lever starts feeding you information. SimPro Manager ties vibration intensity, frequency, and trigger range to what the car is actually doing: ABS, traction control, tire slip, shifting, and half-clutch engagement. Your hand reads the rear axle instead of guessing at it, and you hold the slide on feel rather than on memory. P-HPR modules also support SimHub for anyone who wants to go deeper.
Power comes through the dedicated DC interfaces on the base, with the P-APS accessory power supply handling the extended load.
Go hydraulic without starting over
When you want the weight and damping of a competition hydraulic lever, the P-HYS or P-HYSi module replaces the rubber spring barrel on the handbrake you already own. Pull the pin, swap the module, and run scheme D with five green T-type elastomers for a fluid sink-in with even, linear rebound. Your mount stays where it is. Your lever stays where it is. Only the feel changes.
Two modes, five angles, and a pull-type conversion
The lever runs horizontal for road car layouts or vertical for rally and drift, with five angle positions and adjustable height on the pull rod. Different mounting holes let you convert it into a pull-type handbrake entirely. Mount it to a bracket tray with the supplied lock nuts, or straight onto extrusion with the profile slider nuts in the box.
Sensing that holds up at both ends of the range
A 100 kg load cell reads force rather than travel, so a hard pull registers the same on lap one and lap fifty. Behind it sits our patented Full-Range Adaptive Sensing Technology, a quadruple cascaded amplification circuit that optimizes gain across the entire input range. Small inputs keep their detail, big inputs never overflow, and a 12-bit sensor resolves all of it into 4096 counts. The die-cast aluminum body and CNC-machined structure hold their rigidity when you yank it at full commitment.
Software that keeps up
SimPro Manager handles calibration, dead zone, and response curves, with linear, exponent, logarithm, and S-curve modes built in plus fully custom curves on top. Connect over USB-C to a PC or an Alpha series base, or over RJ45 to an Alpha EVO series base via CANFD. Firmware updates run through the same window.
Specifications
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Load cell |
100 kg (standard configuration) |
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Resolution |
12-bit (4096 counts) |
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Materials |
Aluminum alloy, ABS + PC. POM handle |
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Connection |
USB-C to PC or Alpha series base CAN. RJ45 to Alpha EVO series base CANFD |
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Electrical |
DC 5V / 1A, 5W max |
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Adjustable |
Travel, spring tension, angle and position, linearity, resistance, dead zone |
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Dimensions |
209.5 × 73.5 × 382.5 mm |
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Net weight |
1.36 kg |
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Included elastomers |
Yellow spring × 2 + damper spacer × 3 (pre-installed), black O-ring × 8, green O-ring × 8, green T-type × 9 |
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Optional accessories |
P-HPR and P-HPR GT haptic reactors, P-APS accessory power supply, P-HYS and P-HYSi hydraulic modules, P-ORP and P-ORP(H) brake elastomers |
Pricing and availability
TB-Neo is $139 for the complete handbrake, with the full elastomer accessory pack, cables, and screw kit in the box. Haptic reactors, hydraulic modules, and additional elastomer kits are available separately.
Build the handbrake you actually want. TB-Neo is available now at simagic.com and through authorized SIMAGIC retailers.
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