TallTom
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Ok so I get my new brake upgrade this week. Thanks for the awesome group buy Street & Track. Changed out lines and pads. Bled system. Everything is hunkie dorie in the garage. Take her out for a brake run in. Front run in no problem. You can smell them burning in like expected. Cooling them off and now time to do the rears.
At braking number 5 all was going well. Just starting to smell them burn in. Brake number 6 and there was no pedal. None, not even a little. The first thing I thought was *&^$% my new pads came out cuz those springs flew out and I had to deduce how they went back in. Circled back. Nothing laying on the road. Hmmm. I stop(not wanting to come to a stop but had to) and looked at the rear caliper. Nothing seemed amiss. I figured must be a great big air bubble or something so I drove her home.
Got home with the notion of bleeding the rears. Cooled down, open up the resevoir, found it full. Pressed the rear pedal by hand...now it has good pressure and feel.....wth??? OK...cracked open the bleed valve and thought OK under heat the bubble is expanding or something. No air at all in the bleed. Nothing at all. I pumped down the resevoir and topped it off. Not a blip of a bubble. It has great pedal feel just like it did before I started the burn in. So now I'm scratching my head trying to to figure out WTH is happening. I have never used the rear that hard before today. By the matter of burn in it wants you to brake hard, so this is the first time the rears have been subjected to this type of braking since I have owned the bike. So if this is fade it is 100% fade.
2 other observations. I had 6K on the bike. All factory brakes. The rear had about 15% left. That was a surprise since I don't use the rear that much or that hard. Take note guys the rears don't last long.
2nd. Man the EBC HH do bite. The fronts are far far ahead of what I had from the factory. Don't really need the rears but still I want all the brakes I'm sposed to have.
So what are the thoughts on the rear brakes here guys?
At braking number 5 all was going well. Just starting to smell them burn in. Brake number 6 and there was no pedal. None, not even a little. The first thing I thought was *&^$% my new pads came out cuz those springs flew out and I had to deduce how they went back in. Circled back. Nothing laying on the road. Hmmm. I stop(not wanting to come to a stop but had to) and looked at the rear caliper. Nothing seemed amiss. I figured must be a great big air bubble or something so I drove her home.
Got home with the notion of bleeding the rears. Cooled down, open up the resevoir, found it full. Pressed the rear pedal by hand...now it has good pressure and feel.....wth??? OK...cracked open the bleed valve and thought OK under heat the bubble is expanding or something. No air at all in the bleed. Nothing at all. I pumped down the resevoir and topped it off. Not a blip of a bubble. It has great pedal feel just like it did before I started the burn in. So now I'm scratching my head trying to to figure out WTH is happening. I have never used the rear that hard before today. By the matter of burn in it wants you to brake hard, so this is the first time the rears have been subjected to this type of braking since I have owned the bike. So if this is fade it is 100% fade.
2 other observations. I had 6K on the bike. All factory brakes. The rear had about 15% left. That was a surprise since I don't use the rear that much or that hard. Take note guys the rears don't last long.
2nd. Man the EBC HH do bite. The fronts are far far ahead of what I had from the factory. Don't really need the rears but still I want all the brakes I'm sposed to have.
So what are the thoughts on the rear brakes here guys?
