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10-07-2004, 11:24 AM
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| Throttle Jockey   Join Date: Apr 2004
Bike: '05 Boulevard C50
Location: Central Kentucky
Posts: 3,208
|  Nobody needs rear brakes!
Or so my mechanic seemed to think. I picked up my Kawasaki Concours from having the transmission fixed and took it up a 35 mile country highway back to my office. A test drive. The 1-2 upshift problem seems to be totally fixed, they removed the positive neutral finder, and the bike is riding smoother than ever. Shift - yeah, accelerate - vrooom, brakes - no problem. Almost back to the office and I start to meet some other traffic. Applying a bit of brake and I find that my rear brake is doing nothing. Not a huge problem, the two front discs do well - but still, WTF? I get off the bike and there is the rear caliper, hanging by the brake line. The dealer gave me the mounting bolts and I bolted it back on, no problem. Still, it was weird that the rear brake worked well in the first part of my trip and then just frickin' fell off.  |
