R1 front brakes & Viper race can...

Who?

 

I just nostalged.

 

He gets around: in here, pretending to be darsy, and in Derbyshire,
pretending to be Platypus, and now selling dyno time in the East End.

 

I'm gonna buy one of those brembo levers, decent pads, change the fluid
& see how it goes.

Then it's on the Dyno

Nige

 

It's not just a different lever, it's the whole master cylinder you
want. You might also need to buy a reservoir if your existing one is
built into the front brake assembly. Harris Performance can supply
everything you need including the replacement brake light switch.

Mine's the 19mm bore 20 ratio version which gives you a bigger piston
and increased ratio so it's like hitting a brick wall if you give the
lever a big squeeze. I think Champ has exactly the same model but he's
using different pads.

Just for a laugh go and have a look who made the existing master
cylinder on your bike because I'll be very surprised if it wasn't
Brembo, they've been supplying Yamaha (amongst others) for years.

 

Front is Nissin & has a seperate res on a bracket on the top yoke.

Rear is Brembo, to be honest, the fluid on both is filthy, i'll start by
changing fluid & fitting new pads.

The lever does feel quite spongey, not too arsed about rear, who the
**** uses that?

Took it out last night & on the same roundabout it nearly lobbed me on,
it tucked in a treat & there was a heart warming sound of plastic vs.
road surface

There's a place local that does the pads & the **** also sells all the
brembo gear.....

Oh, you're a **** for making go out like that, in the dark, I just
knocked some oil all over me fucking slippers.

 

Well that's what I thought. :-|

 

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Just make sure you get everything. You'll probably even need a new
link pipe between the master cylinder and the reservoir.

Result.

 

Heh.

 

Yamaha Brembo and Italian Brembo are two very different things. I think
Nige's 99 model R1 has an old style Nissin m/cylinder, the Brembo ones
were from 04 onwards and radial type.

 

All I was trying to do was make him go out to his garage for a look at
his brakes.

Btw, the only difference between Adies R1 master cylinder assembly and
the one fitted to my Kawasaki is the ratio and the piston size. Maybe
Harris ripped me off by selling me a Yamaha shitter?

 

Every time I've asked about the Yamaha Brembo kit, I've had the same
answer "It's not the same", and that has come from Yamaha dealers and
their mechanics. The rear master cylinders Yamaha used on the R6 and R1
are exactly the same style as every other rear m/cyl Yamaha have used
on just about all their models that have had a disc rear since 1990,
they just have Brembo cast into them. I'm told the Yamaha Brembo stuff
is made in Japan, in the same way that the Japanese made Yamaha Ohlins
stuff "wasn't the same" as Swedish made Ohlins suspension parts, and it
really wasn't. I think you'll find there are differences, like the
Yamaha one Adie has on her bike has provision for a brake light switch,
whereas your one hasn't - subtle differences that tell you it's not an
Italian built one.

Italian Brembo make fucking brilliant kit, Yamaha Brembo is simply good
kit. It might look the same, but there is a difference. Maybe that's
why an 04 model R1 Brembo radial master cylinder with lever is 120 quid
from your local Yam dealer[1], but you try buying an Italian Brembo
radial m/cyl with a lever from the likes of Harris and you'll pay
nearly double that.

[1] I priced one up at Flitwick M/cs when I had the GSXR1000

 

Other makes are available, & some of them are spanking gorgeous. Can't
remember the names, but there were a few for sale at a trackday I did
in France, & I nearly came when I saw them.

 

Bad form but an example:
http://www.moto-racing.co.uk/item--ISR-Radial-Master-Cylinder--ISR+Rad+M
C.html

 

Thought it was only a matter of time.

 

well done, your first ever whoosh, AFAIC.

 

What? From you? I doubt it.

It was devilishly elaborate, if that's all it was for.

Or have I just been had again?

 

no, I meant that I really don't know what you meant by that comment.

I think I need to go back to bed.

 

OIC. It was an oblique reference to a plethora of "My mate in special
forces", and similar anecdotes, which was really just a excuse to
bring in a observation on your former schoolmate.

 

whaaat....oh, you mean Platy? Oh he went to the same school as I did,
but many, many years before.