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Renovation Time
z1100r:
Just had a nights sleep and a few beers so all is well with the Honda again. Except you try to do a job without getting brake fluid everywhere and what happens....oh never mind its done now and everything is washed down...no real damage. The goldwing master cylinder and hel pipes work a treat, dont normally like braided hoses because they give the brakes such a wooden solid feel at the lever (I like a bit of spongy feel) but these seem OK.
Thanks for those diagrams, love reading stuff like that. excellent.
z1100r:
Handle bar problem solved....I 'adjusted' the
K2-K6:
That's interesting what you say about "brake sponge" I think brakes need that as well and too many confuse that with brake power and fade resistance, lever feel is critical especially on road tyres in the wet.
I new somebody who had an R1, just had it painted yellow american race colours, new six-pot calipers hoses monster discs etc, first ride out in the wet and grabbed the brake, Tink-loc-crash and trashed all the plastic!
z1100r:
Its daft to have a brake lever thats solid....no manufaturer makes them like that and of course they could if they wanted too. I have an RD500 track bike with the best brakes in the world for a road bike. They are of course not RD500 brakes..the bike has a complete 1998 R6 front end with 'blue spot calipers', stock rubber hoses and new Yamaha pads, brakes dont get much better. I'm not just talking about stopping power I'm talking about the whole experience of braking, I've yet to ride anything with as good all round braking as those early blue spot R6's. Thundercats and thunderaces are blue spots aswell but they aren't the same, they have a metal brake pipe bypass that the R6 doesn't have. I have a Thunderace and its brakes are OK but not in the same league as the R6.
z1100r:
Oh forgot...The BSA A65 high rise bars did arrive but very disappointing...high rise my arse.
I appear to have gone mad buying handlebars left right and centre but its OK I have bikes for all of them. I have a Matchless 500 Hells Angel bike which needs the 8" rise bars I bought, and the BSA bars will fit perfect on my original 250 leaner bike (Moto-Guzzi TS 250 Electronica). So I haven't wasted the money - I'm too tight to do that. ;D
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