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**Uncle Bob** · 04-26-2004, 08:20 PM

Squeaky brakes are usually the result of breaking them in too easy, take the opprtunity to get familiar with them.

Find a quiet road and practice fast stops using front brakes ( without locking up the wheel of course), no need to go crazy, just slow from maybe 50 to 10 mph in progressivily harder stop ( actually I don't want you to come to a full stop to avoid overheating the disks ).

By using the front brakes in a mild manner you are just glazing them which causes squealing. If they are glazed that can be corrected, actually there was a sticky in mechanics corner explaining it but it seems to have dissapeared, I'll repost it if I find it.

04-26-2004, 08:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
Uncle Bob Site Admin & Squeegee Boy Joined: Dec 1969 Bike: 2003 Volusia SE Location: Montréal, Québec, Canada Posts: 107	Squeaky brakes are usually the result of breaking them in too easy, take the opprtunity to get familiar with them. Find a quiet road and practice fast stops using front brakes ( without locking up the wheel of course), no need to go crazy, just slow from maybe 50 to 10 mph in progressivily harder stop ( actually I don't want you to come to a full stop to avoid overheating the disks ). By using the front brakes in a mild manner you are just glazing them which causes squealing. If they are glazed that can be corrected, actually there was a sticky in mechanics corner explaining it but it seems to have dissapeared, I'll repost it if I find it. __________________ Yadda yadda yadda, whatever, they ain't going to listen anyway.