'juddering' front brake.

Not on an SV, but a cbr600rr. Under heavy braking, typically at lower speeds in the 40-0mph range the front will judder a bit, feels like a rattle through the forks. If I release and reapply it goes away usually but is pretty odd.

I've not had the brakes off yet but pads are fine (tyres changed recently and they had a look) and discs don't appear to be warped.

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I had exactly the same, my forks were bottoming out.

What weight are you? I weight 12.5st and my preload had to be wound 15 clockwise of it's 16 adjustments before it was right.

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Forgot to say that's on a 600rr too.

Other things I did at the same time were clean all the brakes up including caliper pistons and making sure the floating discs are actually floating by cleaning the washers.

99% put my money on the forks bottoming like mine were though.

Thanks buddy. I'll check they're not bottoming out but I don't think they are. I'm about the same weight as you but my suspension settings are all stock, unless someone wound them all the way around? Don't know if that's even possible.

It's about time I had the brakes off anyway so I'll check preload first and then give the brakes a clean up.

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If it's still on stock settings then it probably is lacking preload for your weight by a fair bit.

Stick a cable tie on the stanchion and after hard riding with heavy braking it need to finish at 33mm, at 27mm from the bottom the forks are bottoming out.

can you get the RR with abs?

Originally Posted by warrenhewitt10

can you get the RR with abs?

I guess it would depend on how much time it spent in the gym.

Originally Posted by Stig

I guess it would depend on how much time it spent in the gym.

very true, just thought it would be worth a say

Apparently after a quick Google search, ABS has been available on the RR since last year.

reason i suggest this, have a friend whos dad has one of the new tiger 1050's it has abs, and when it kicks in it sounds awfully like what sauluk has described