Its angle it relative to the position of the adjusted position.
Its hard to describe... but more angle would mean more travel to get lock up and I dont have much room on the handle bar to get the leverage(from the hand lever)....
If I have understood this correctly.....
This is really hard to describe in words and so easy to show if we were standing there, bench racing with a beer. It's not the amount of travel, I am talking about the starting and ending angle.
Imagine you have a bolt in a vise and put a ratchet on it. You are facing the vise.
Now put the handle of the wrench parallel to the vise jaws and pull it towards you. You are starting perpendicular, and as you pull the angle gets less (more away from the baseline).
That is not the way you'd do it. You'd start with the handle of the ratchet angled back away from you so the angle increases towards the baseline as you pull on it. This gives you much more force delivered because leverage is working for you instead of against you.
If you drew a vector diagram, in the first case some of the effort is rotating the handle away from you so is not effectively available. In the second case almost all of your effort is doing what you want it to do.
Again, I am doing a terrible job of explaining but hopefully...and if not, what the heck.
