braking on ball-bearings

Close shave indeed, I wouldn't have wanted the caliper to get ripped off
the end of the pipe.

Didn't you need a new pair of boots too?

 

Well thankfully I was only doing <30mph at the time, and Mr. Back Brake was
still in fairly good nick!

No, somewhat bizarrely it had wedged itself in between the outside of the
boot and the toe-slider. Nasty bruise on as couple of toes though.

 

Dan White says...

I lost the rear brake caliper from my second ZZR1100, it just fell off.
It got a bit mangled by the rear wheel so I just cut the brake hose with
a Swiss Army knife, lobbed the old caliper in a pannier and carried on
my journey.

 

Hmm.. I feel compelled to go outside and double check all my bikes
brakes... well, I did the clean the drums out thing on my CG125 the
other day.

I like my moto X boots. Things tend to bounce off them, and not hurt my
toes, shins.

 

Beav says...

Bollocks, absolute and total bollocks.

 

What he said.

 

What he said.[/QUOTE]

Try riding Gertrude one day.

EBC drilled disk plus Harrison billet mini-6 caliper = interesting
whirr when the brakes are applied. I worried until I was certain that
it's pad/disk interaction.

 

Try riding Gertrude one day.

EBC drilled disk plus Harrison billet mini-6 caliper = interesting
whirr when the brakes are applied. I worried until I was certain that
it's pad/disk interaction.[/QUOTE]

Yes, the Duke's discs whirr also. Sound effects are not the same as
physical effects, IYSWIM.

 

Champ wrote

Yebbut so do I so there is your credibility right out of the window.

 

And me, FWIW. I had drilled discs on the Black Thing, and they made the
whizzy noise in use, but never felt in any way dodgy.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

AOL. I *love* that whizzy noise. It really makes you feel like you're
slowing down.

And on the ZZR, any reassurance on the matter is very welcome.

--
Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
ZZR1100, Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"

 

The whizzy sound also tells me how long I've got until another brake
rebuild is due on my Bandit.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Beav"

The only phenomenom I've occasionally encountered from drilled or
slotted discs is a whirring noise at low speeds; certainly never felt
anything from it.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

I think the whizzy noise is more a product of the type of brake pads
rather than the holes.

Oddly, unwisely, tightfistedly (your choice) I have OE Brembo sintered
pads on one disk and standard cheapo EBC on the other.

One side (Brembo) makes whizzy noises the other (EBC) doesn't; both disks
are drilled. Bear in mind on the Guzzi I can apply each disk separately.

 

It is - I recall it first happening when the japs introduced sintered
pads.

 

Beav says...

More a case of "So I know", and "So everyone else but you knows"