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Re: [ST] RS Brakes
- Subject: Re: [ST] RS Brakes
- From: Erik Miner <Axeis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 22:22:27 -0400
How many miles on the bike?? What year is it? How long have you had it??
Erik
>I think the brakes on my RS suck. I suppose it's all what you are
>used to. I had a Triumph Thunderbird with a harrison 6-piston
>caliper on a single front disk and it had much more stopping power
>than my new RS. The Thunderbird's brakes were closer to a Speed
>Triple -- a bike I consider almost perfect in the braking department.
>
>I need a few more fingers to haul down the RS than I am used to. In
>fact, when I rode an SV650 yesterday, I applied the same pressure to
>the lever that I do on the Sprint and I crushed my nads from the
>braking force.
>
>Has anyone else noticed this? Has anyone else fixed this? I notice
>that the RS has steel-braided lines, but there is a rubber hose that
>comes out of the master cylinder to the distributor. Is that rubber
>hose the reason that the brakes feel like goosh?
>
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