Originally Posted by SV650rules

Red rubber grease is for rubber to rubber and rubber to metal, not metal to metal, it is just a non-petroleum (vegetable and silicone) base grease , not really a good metal lubricant - when I ordered new slide pins for my car brakes they came with a sachet of white silicone brake grease. If you want to really get it right use a ceramic or molybdenum loaded PTFE grease on slide pins, but I have used TRW silicone white brake grease on cars and bikes for years and never had a problem.