braided hose brake lines

[PieEater]

Huh? Tell me where you would rather they failed?

Why - when I'm advising replacement of degraded hoses in order to eliminate failure in the first place? You can't choose where degraded hoses will fail, but you can pretty much guarantee that when they do it will be when they are under greater than normal pressure i.e. when practicing sharp braking or when actually attempting to avoid an accident i.e. "when shit is happeneing and you will die if you dont stop as quick as you would like".

If you don't trust your hoses to do the job, what the foc are you doing riding the bike in the first place?

We're not talking about my hoses or yours, if as I suspect the hoses in question are the OEM ones then they should already have been replaced and should be viewed as potentially unsafe. This  is why I am advising that they be replaced as a matter of priority and why I think your advice to the contrary is inappropriate.

And if you don't see the point of trying to improve your braking technique, you probably never will.

You obviously didn't read my post properly, I never said that there was no point improving braking technique rather that there was no point doing so on a degraded failure prone braking system when the alternative was to fit new lines and learn how to make the best of a fully functional safe braking system.

The fact remains that Yamaha state clearly in the owners handbook that the OEM brake lines should be replaced after 4 years. For whatever reason people may choose not to replace the hoses within these timescales but given that the OEM lines are now more than double or even triple this age, they really ought to be replaced for safety reasons. Advice to the contrary is potentially putting peoples lives in danger.