Post by twoblackcats on Aug 5, 2010 21:20:28 GMT
Right, strange one this and pretty damn scary too.
Riding along at a sedate pace fingers not even resting on the lever humming a tune generally at peace with the world when wham. The front brake comes on hard and increases in pressure and I slow rapidly from 30 mph to a stop and in the process nearly got chucked over the front.
So I get off the bike a little shaken thinking WTF just got wedged in my front wheel. Had a look, nothing, had a closer look and still nothing there, just a hot brake. By this time my near death experience was causing inconvenience to the jam jar drivers behind me so I pushed, no dragged the still locked up CB500 to the kerb.
I tried to free the caliper in the time Honored fashion but just hurt my foot, that bugger weren't moving.
Had a smoke and scratched my head, still none the wiser gave it a shove and it had freed off so rode nervously home avoiding using the front brake.
I carried on using the bike (gingerly) and at my earliest convenience bleed the brake through. It did not try and kill me again for sometime and gradually my confidence returned. Lucky for me I live in London so most journeys are slow speed playing with the traffic, the thought of it locking up at speed is proper brown trouser stuff.
All but forgotten about until making progress through the traffic it happens again this time at about 40/45 and it seemed a bit more gradual but maybe that's the speed and the fact I was quick to stand up weight over the back because I new what was coming this time. Oh, the weight over the back thing worked until the front started to skid and then I went forward for the unintentional stoppie. Same thing as before no warning, no previous heavy braking, brake was not dragging before and I weren't on the brakes at the time.
This time I was running late for work and pissing on the caliper satisfied my eurgh to wee, cooled the brakes and told the bike who's boss at the same time.
I know a lot of bikers but none who this has happened to before, anyone got any ideas? I'd really like to know.
The solution was to swap the complete system over with the spare bike in the garage, should of done it 1st time really
I wouldn't wish this on anybody and it bugs me that I can't work out what happened. Stoppies at speed are scary enough when you have control of the brakes, automatic brakes just isn't cricket.
Riding along at a sedate pace fingers not even resting on the lever humming a tune generally at peace with the world when wham. The front brake comes on hard and increases in pressure and I slow rapidly from 30 mph to a stop and in the process nearly got chucked over the front.
So I get off the bike a little shaken thinking WTF just got wedged in my front wheel. Had a look, nothing, had a closer look and still nothing there, just a hot brake. By this time my near death experience was causing inconvenience to the jam jar drivers behind me so I pushed, no dragged the still locked up CB500 to the kerb.
I tried to free the caliper in the time Honored fashion but just hurt my foot, that bugger weren't moving.
Had a smoke and scratched my head, still none the wiser gave it a shove and it had freed off so rode nervously home avoiding using the front brake.
I carried on using the bike (gingerly) and at my earliest convenience bleed the brake through. It did not try and kill me again for sometime and gradually my confidence returned. Lucky for me I live in London so most journeys are slow speed playing with the traffic, the thought of it locking up at speed is proper brown trouser stuff.
All but forgotten about until making progress through the traffic it happens again this time at about 40/45 and it seemed a bit more gradual but maybe that's the speed and the fact I was quick to stand up weight over the back because I new what was coming this time. Oh, the weight over the back thing worked until the front started to skid and then I went forward for the unintentional stoppie. Same thing as before no warning, no previous heavy braking, brake was not dragging before and I weren't on the brakes at the time.
This time I was running late for work and pissing on the caliper satisfied my eurgh to wee, cooled the brakes and told the bike who's boss at the same time.
I know a lot of bikers but none who this has happened to before, anyone got any ideas? I'd really like to know.
The solution was to swap the complete system over with the spare bike in the garage, should of done it 1st time really
I wouldn't wish this on anybody and it bugs me that I can't work out what happened. Stoppies at speed are scary enough when you have control of the brakes, automatic brakes just isn't cricket.