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Joined: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:31 am Posts: 65 Location: Near Geneve Switzerland
I have a question regarding the front brake, when it is raining and I mean heavy rain my front brake seems to require at least one full revolution of the wheel before it starts to bite and it seems to be getting worse. I never remember having this problem with my Kawasaki, is it I have some poor pads that don’t produce enough heat to keep the disks dry or are you all experiencing the same thing.
Joined: Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:29 am Posts: 48 Location: Canberra, Australia
Happens to me after the bike has been sitting in the carpark at work all day in the rain. I usually feather it on the way out of the driveway until they bite a little bit but it only happens the once. If its pissing down with rain perhaps just gently feather it now and then as your riding.
but its common sense to check you have correct pad thickness and check the rotors too depending on how many miles youve done
Joined: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:51 am Posts: 1028 Location: Canberra, Australia
Yeah thats normal, wet brake disks. Its not a problem for me, if its raining I am riding so carefully that the extra half a second it takes for the brakes to bite is insignificant.
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The MSF has recommended that in the rain that you down shift one gear so if needed the engine can help you brake, and to allow a lot more distance. Other than that do as recommended above, to gently apply them now and then to dry them off. It is possible that your pads have glazed with use and that would make the problem worse. Don't know if that happens to ceramic pads, but it is pretty simply to pull them out and use a clean wire brush on them to break the glaze.
Joined: Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:19 pm Posts: 12 Location: South East,United Kingdom
Two and a half thou miles and the brakes are shite.had some carbon lorraine pads on my v-strom and these had some bite which made the frontend on the strom dip earlier than on the oem as standard.good in the wet as well,but there again i did,nt push my luck in the rain on adv type tyres.talking of which the presant ones on the fixxer will be replaced with pilot2,s or 3,s and pads will be carbon lorraines in the near future
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