Riding from Melbourne to Sydney

+1. Once you've had a dead sheep, you'll never go back.


BTH

 

Never ridden with a 4LS but I've heard stories that a properly adjusted one
was brilliant! (for a few stops at least!)

The mach111 and the S2 (and my first road bike; a Yammy R5 350) were twin
leading-shoe. ('though I'd never claim they were ever set-up properly!)

 

Yep; that pretty-much describes it Dave. FULL - STOP - FULL - STOP - FULL .

 

CT90. The miniscule SLS front drum provides a gentle braking action that
leaves one in no danger of accidentally pulling a stoppie.

I suspect that I'd get better braking power if I *did* swap the V-brakes
off my mountain bike onto it...


BTH

 

My brother had the first of the 750 Suzuki Waterbottles, which had a 4Ls
brake. It was, at the time, the best brake I'd experienced, much better than
the crappy discs on my Yamaha. Unlike the Yamaha, they worked in the rain.

I seem to recall that Honda(?) made a 125 or 250 with a cable operated disc.

Theo

 

If you remember the bottle stoppers 4ls after 4 or 5 good grabs got warm
and the 6th would remind you about rectal clench if initiated
I remember roaring down Mt Tambourine on mine and realising that smell
was brake smoke ad it wasn't mist covering the front brakes then
drifting sideways across the cornes near the drop off down to the
thunder rock sanctuary , had a good grip on the seat that day

 

Do do claim to have the "try it for 60 days or return it" thing.

I've still got the same deadsheep on my GS500, but opted for an
airhawk for the Beemer. Doesn't wet my arse so badly if I stop for
lunch during the rain (and it's actually more comfortable).

 

One advantage I found with the sheepskin was if it did rain while I was not
on the bike I could fold half of it over onto the pillion seat area and
have a dry seat to sit on.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 7 Feb 2011 20:46:37 +0800

They didn't sell all that well though, when the first disk brake
waterbottle came out, they flew out the door. According to a 70s mag
I have.

You won't see any drum brake waterbottles now, not even in concours.
That's because all the 750GT drum front brakes ever sold in Oz are being used by
classic racing bikes...

Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:18:07 +1000

That's what you get for riding a twoey!

A 4 stroke Vtwin has enough engine braking not to need to hammer the
brakes like that.

Besides, it's all about corner speed...

Zebee

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 8 Feb 2011 01:06:05 +1100

I'm amazed by the Norge's seat.

It was cut down for me, but the same padding and gel retained after it
was reshaped.

Only bike I've ever had that I haven't needed a sheepskin for.

Zebee

 

Trust me there was all the corner speed I could handle
Front was Dunlop TT and the rear a big Avon , the Avon initially was a
much flatter tyre but after a fortnight became heavy v with zero chicken
strips and the particular corner being lightly off camber once over the
centre line made for an exciting new seconds , ride that road recently
on my bluetank/MK4 restoration and realised what a soft framed evil
scooter it is , at least the water bottle had some metal in the frame
and doesn't need thick soled boots to reverse the acceleration

 

airhawkguy does a free trial with money back guarantee. Back of AMCN there is
usually an advert.

Fraser

 

Maybe the CB200.
There was a Kwakka like that too (also about 200cc)

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:45:21 +1000

And of course BMW's effort with a cable operated hydraulic cylinder,
much fun that was!

Zebee

 

I remember a Jap bike too that had a short cable leading to a remote
master-cylinder tucked in behind the headlight.
Maybe the XS750 Yam but I'm a bit fuzzy.

 

The one that I gave you at your first Unaugural? That one was actually a
little bit thin and compacted (I'd already ridden about 50,000km aboard
it).


BTH

 

Heh. So I probably should look at getting another one.

 

Err, didn't the original Moto Guzzi V50 have a cable operated master
cylinder?

Theo

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 8 Feb 2011 21:20:59 +0800

Dunno, did it? I don't remember ever seeing one.

Zebee