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10-14-2007, 02:51 PM
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| Newbie  Join Date: Aug 2007
Bike: I've got an R6 & I've also had an NSR 125, Honda 50, GSX-R1000, GSXR-750, Kr1-250 and a Honda 400/4
Location: Lincolnshire - England
Posts: 6
|  i learned something very important today. . .
TEST YOUR BRAKES before you go flying off, out for a ride ! ! ! Today i nearly binned my bike, here's the story................... i set off . . the third bend i came too on my journey requires some serious slowing down so i pulled the front brake (I rarely use back accept for stopping) and nothing.. so I pulled a little harder still nothing and at 80mph the corner was coming very very quickly so i stamped on the back aiming to lose as much speed as possible while i was still upright before having to lean and fook me i locked the back up and the chain was clunking like a machine gun so i had no choice i let off the brake and leaned into the corner . . . . phew i made it. . . but the moral of the story is check the bike over first ! it was nothing to do with brake pads nooooo the bloody fork seals had gone and were leaking oil all over the the brakes ! ! ! lucky escape i recon ! |
