Tue Apr 8 10:37:27 1997
- Message No. 580
From: "Seaton, Andy"
Subject: FW: front brake
Hi Martin,
the main advantage of a steel braided brake hose over that of oem rubber
hoses is that of heat causing expansion to your brake hoses. When you
are giving your @ a good bashing and you are breaking heavily a lot of
the time your brake fluid will quickly become very hot. What will then
happen is that the brake fluid expands. If you have the original rubber
brake hoses these will expand with the expansion of the brake fluid as
it starts to boil due to the inherent properties of rubber, ie. it
stretches!!!. This will then cause a pressure loss to your calipers etc
and so your braking power will be dramatically decreased and in some
cases you will have the effect of hardly any braking. So, you install
steel brake hoses, no expansion under heavy braking etc hence no
pressure loss. Much better brakes all round whether it be a street bike
off road of whatever....
Hope this helps....
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>From: Wolfgang Saur[SMTP:Wolfgang.Saur@kommsrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de]
>Sent: Monday, 07 April, 1997 10:57 AM
>To: andy.seaton@gs.com
>Subject: Re: front brake (XRV-LIST)
>
>Martin Franz wrote:
>>
>> Hi all !
>> I'm just about to "optimize" my front brake. It doesn't perform too well
>> with two people :-((
>> I'll mount steel flex tupes. The mechanic also told me, to use not the
>> Honda pads, but switch to Feroddo pads. I've heard, that there was a test,
>> where the Honda pads performed best ?!?!
>
>I don't know, if the Honda pads are the best, but better than all you
>can buy from HG, P****, L****.
>
>> Does anybody know more about that, or even has tested the feroddos ? Does
>> the steel flex realy improve something (ehem, the pressure point) ??
>
>Yes, I've mounted steelflex two weeks ago on my RD03 and in combination
>with original Honda pads the brake is simply great. I'm now training
>stoppies with sozia....
>
>> have a nice slide, Martin
>
>Greets
> Wolfgang
>
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