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06-27-2005, 08:29 PM
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| Newbie Joined: May 2005
Bike: 02 katana 600
Location: Mulesheo, Texas
Posts: 12
  |  no front brake! what tha... today i was riding to my girlfriends house and when i get ready to exit the high way i find a big suprise. this is the point when i normaly lift my fingers off the throtle to cover the front brake and what the heck my front brake lever has fallen off i was pissed suprised and confused all at once. has anything like this ever happend to eny of yall?
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06-28-2005, 02:39 AM
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| U.B's LoveChild   Joined: Jun 2004
Bike: 04 GSXR 600
Location: Lake George, NY
Posts: 1,288
| Something happened similar to my friend the other night. His clutch lever fell off (2004 CBR600RR) during a ride. The pivot pin lost the bolt on the bottom somehow and the pressing in and out of the lever unscrewed the bolt. Wasn't too big an issue; the lever didn't FALL off. We ended up taking a small licence plate bolt to hold on the clutch until we were home.
__________________ Anyone can fire a bullet. Only the good ones can steer one. Bend your elbow, move your arse, and stick the knee out. |
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06-28-2005, 03:42 AM
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| U.B's LoveChild  Joined: Apr 2005
Bike: 2002 V-Star 650
Location: Winston Salem, NC
Posts: 1,253
| Uh, no. Never happened to me, but I bet you have a new appreciation for your rear brake now though. 
__________________ I hate rude behavior in a man, won't tolerate it.. |
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06-28-2005, 08:06 AM
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| Forensic Bug Splatter Analyst.   Joined: Mar 2004
Bike: 02 GSXR 1k
Location: The warm and twisty roads of SoCal
Posts: 3,028
| How can you not notice it missing? That is one thing that has never happened to me. But with my luck....where's some wood? (knock, knock)
__________________ Proud Father of a U S Army Soldier... The key to life is to die young...at a very old age... Ride like you own the road...and...someday the road will own you.. My Favorite Ride? Tomorrows! |
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06-28-2005, 08:29 AM
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| Sit speling cheker  Joined: Mar 2004
Bike: GSX-R 600 K1
Location: Northants,UK
Posts: 1,631
| Not happened to me, but happened to a friend I was out with last year. We were coming up to a roundabout fastish and he pulled the brake lever and it fell off! I wondered why he was going in so hot, didn't realise what happened, anyway he made it round. Glad to see you survived ok Dale.
__________________ Stevie C '02 Gixer 600 K1,Yellow and Black (fastest colour! ), always beats red ones!!Why put off until tomorrow what you can get someone else to do for you today. |
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06-28-2005, 06:17 PM
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| Newbie Joined: May 2005
Bike: 02 katana 600
Location: Mulesheo, Texas
Posts: 12
| yes, the rear brake is now my good friend that i was neglecting before. i'm guessing the same thing happend with my brake lever as your friends clutch lever the bottom nut fell off and then the squizing of the brake lever unscrewed the bolt. now i have to wait a seven to ten days before i can ride the Kat again. however this did enspire me to check all of the bolts on my bike to make sure nothing else was going to fall off. |
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07-05-2005, 12:48 PM
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| Sprocket Pilot   Joined: Sep 2003
Bike: 2003 Honda CGL 125
Location: South Africa
Posts: 857
| Checking bolts and nuts is something I need to do on a more regular basis. I do check my tires for wear and pressure daily though.
__________________ I live in my own little world. But it's OK. They know me here.  Its 106 miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark and we're wearing sunglasses.  Hey, psycho, we're not getting back together. Now get out of my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up. |
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07-05-2005, 01:05 PM
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| Sprocket Pilot  Joined: Nov 2004
Bike: 2005 BMW R1200RT
Location: Bellevue, WA
Posts: 891
| I once got home and my right rear turn signal was flopping around, the bolt that holds it on had fallen out. It was a weird bolt too, I had to go to a dealer and dig through their random bolt bin with the guy to find a replacement. Need to put some locktite on that stuff |
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07-05-2005, 02:51 PM
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| TurtleWax Taster   Joined: Jan 2005
Bike: K5 GSX-R600 & 2003 HD 883
Location: MI
Posts: 573
| Went to down shift once on the freeway off-ramp and realized that the shift peg had fallen off. This was on my HD. It was a big hunk of chrome. It had damaged vehicles behind me. I went nutso on the locktite after that because I felt guilty because two windshields were destroyed. Stuff falls off. It happens. But a front brake lever is pretty darned scary. Glad you're OK.
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07-05-2005, 03:33 PM
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| Happy-ass Lunatic   Joined: Dec 2003
Bike: 2002 Bandit 600S (Black); 2006 GSXR750 (Black)
Location: Memphis
Posts: 11,377
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07-05-2005, 04:18 PM
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| Muscle Biker  Joined: Jul 2004
Bike: Blue Suzuki GSX 1400 (2003)
Location: Canton Basel-Land, Switzerland (47.4493, 7.76536)
Posts: 11,684
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__________________    There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blog: gsx1400 | |
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07-09-2005, 07:37 AM
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| Sprocket Pilot Joined: Sep 2003
Bike: 2003 Honda CGL 125
Location: South Africa
Posts: 857
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__________________ I live in my own little world. But it's OK. They know me here. Its 106 miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Hey, psycho, we're not getting back together. Now get out of my Van Halen t-shirt before you jinx the band and they break up. | |
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07-12-2005, 05:39 PM
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| Throttle Jockey  Joined: Apr 2004
Bike: '05 Boulevard C50
Location: Central Kentucky
Posts: 3,208
|  Quote:
...I'm just mad that you already typed my rude response
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