Ooops

Also stops the fluid absorbing water from the atmosphere
whilst allowing the level to drop as the pads wear.

 

Well, yes, but surely the m/cylinder cap on its own is tight-fitting
enough to do that?

 

But, the less fluid you have in the res, the more air you have, so the
more likely it is to be absorbed. The bellows minimise this.[/QUOTE]

Yep, OK, that makes sense, I'm convinced.

 

I'm not going to remove the lid just to find out but ISTR
that the bottom of the bellows is a tight fit on the reservoir
and the top of the bellows or the underside of the lid has a
channel to allow air in without contacting the fluid.

It's better than car brake fluid reservoirs which are just leaky.

 

Oh, I dunno. When you specifically tell someone that you don't want
them to touch your bike, go into the house to make a brew and return
with said brew(s) to find bits of your bike on the drive, then it is
really annoying.

Especially on the occasion when 'mr helpful' managed to lose a washer
down the centre of the engine on the GPX, as I was in the process of
replacing the camchain in-site and didn't want to have to take the
engine out of the frame.

I can relate to Lady Nina's frustration about it.

--
Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

Champ wrote

Wimmin eh?

 

I think there's a moral to this story....

I'm just not brave enough to say what it is.

 

Know all the facts before you make judgements?

 

Ginge says...

A woman only wants one one thing bleeding at a time...

 

To be honest, I get quite annoyed if someone moves my bike without
asking. Mainly because I'm worried about someone dropping it.
Someone did try and move it at work the other day and cracked the
front mudguard with the disc lock.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

I would follow this line of reasoning:

1. It must cost *something* to make and fit the Little Rubber Bellows.
2. The Nips haven't built a globally successful motorcycle business by
being thick.
3. The Nips think the LRB is A Necessary Item.
4. The LRB is likely to be ANI.

--
Wicked Uncle 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"

 

I suppose as long as you didn't ride it, there'd be no reason to be
suspicious.

 

Come on chaps - you're all intelligent fellows...

The cap must have a hole in it to allow in air to replace the fluid
that goes into the calipers and to ensure that the resovoir doesn't
become pressurised and force the brakes on.

A car stays, pretty much, shiny side up all the time. Bikes tip around
and fall over. So the way to allow air into the resovoir without
letting the fluid out needed to be found...

That's why the little rubber bellows are there.

 

I wouldn't be as annoyed, but I still feel it's a matter of politeness
and I should have been asked.

This would obviously be different in an emergency of someone about to
reverse into it or summat.

 

Where were you when I needed you?

 

I think it's rag week in Derby.

 

Simon Atkinson says...

Students - you've got to love them.

All that time to themselves for shagging and doing drugs, and they still
find time to type centuries old jokes on a few photocopied sheets of
paper and get scantily clad slappers to flog them off to unsuspecting
middle aged men.

 

It's all I live for.

 

Ginge wrote:

I think so, I went out to Tesco this afternoon but they were already
shut so my watch must be wrong.