Not all the time, but they're have been issues where the poor for of the lever has many that there was some pressure on the brake which blocked the small return hole on the piston which stops the fluid returning to the reservoir. The upshot of this is that when the fluid heats up it expands, it has nowhere to go other than push the pistons out, which adds more heat, which pushes the pistons out and so on, up to the point where one of two people have crashed with the front brake seizing on.

When I fitted them on an ER6 I had I made sure that, once fitted, that I could easily push the pistons back into the caliper.

Given the lights, Daredevil may have been more fitting than spider-man

+1 for the confusion over the extra wear, are people who don't use engine braking pulling the clutch in and coasting on the brakes until they accelerate again?


If you are braking with the drive still engaged and are braking faster than engine braking alone, then there are more forces acting on the drive train from the rear wheel increasing the rate at which the engine is being decelerated over and above the natural engine braking from being off throttle, no?


Or maybe it's just late 

Fitted and ultra lows. First time fitting bars and quite pleased at how easy it was.

Silver Fazer in the petrol station on Lennoxtown, not sure what variant

Ah, right, cool, thanks. Just put exhaust back on and was wondering if too right meant more liable to seize on.

Thanks for the update :-)

Wired article doesn't sound like something that they'd do on an aircraft in flight, however guy at work thinks it's sounds very similar to the Greek flight where cabin pressurisation failed and everyone succumbed to hypoxia: http://foc-u.co.uk/index.php?topic=11461.0

Tdm's get a good write up and is actually what I was looking for before I got the fazer 600.

Same engine as the trx

Had road 2s on my zx6r did 9k miles in total including two track days at knockhill, including one that was abandoned half way through due to the amount of rain. They are great tyres and even gripped well during torrential rain.

Rear at 9k


Front at 9k.

Out both days, scrubbed new tyres in yesterday on a wee trip up to Glencoe and back, wet and very windy, but great roads. Started drying up again, so headed back up that way to see if I could catch my mates on their way back. All in all 280 miles and first proper run on the bike since picking it up. Loved it! :-D

Procrastination

Green

Well, original sump plug I ordered was the wrong thread, but got sent out new, magnetic one, with coarser thread that arrived the next day, great service from them. (raw power motorcycles on eBay).

Exhaust patched and refitted, ready for tyres and run on Saturday. Could maybe have been welded, but would've meant waiting over a week..