Crashed.

Braided line won`t help improve the rear very much , making sure your Piston is in good fashion and seals are good with fresh fluid is first port of call . Decent pads that have had time to bed in to the Disc and one of the most overlooked things is the lever itself . Get that adjusted to the correct position for your riding and make sure the bearing surface where it goes onto the footpeg is greased . These can gum up surprisingly quickly in the Winter . Sintered pads are probably a waste of time on the rear as well . Somebody will come along and dispute this shortly and I think it is down to personal preference , a good working system with pads mated to the Disc is the very least that you should be running .

^ cheers for that will keep it in mind may only go with braided lines on the front because its cheeper than all round and as you say not realy nessosary on the back

Definate improvement on the front , especially if you live in an area like mine where riding is good or go on the rideouts with us next year and give the brakes a good workout . I`m not much of a Braker wholesale anyway , in fact I only just removed the OEM pads from an `03 SV , but in the times where I have needed to rely on those anchors (such as having the Badgeress on the back) they have been there for me and good enough .

lol my rear pads were comming of the backing i was like wat the hell when i saw the, and yeh befor i cleaned the pistons i slamed my brakes on with the gf on the back and nearly rearanged the back of a BMW and i wasent that close but it was down a hill but luckly i managed to swerve to and avoid him. thats when i started to think about making the brakes better

and i live near the fosse way so have some roads that could use some better brakes

Originally Posted by LK-SV

Bad luck mate ... it was very slippery this morning ... I felt the bike move on a junction, and I couldn't have been going more than 10mph !!!!

The heavy SV is certainly seems to move around more than my lightweight 125 that I was running last year !!!

Either that, or my Dunlops are crap in the cold weather .. I've been quite happy with them til now .... maybe I'll let a bit of air out ... did pump them up this morning ....

Well I was right in a sense!! Lol.

Checked the pressures on MY guage today (didn't have chance the other day) and the BP tyre machine is reading a good 10% (or 3psi) too high !!!!

^ hmm thanks for reminding me i need to check mine

well spent a good 5 hours on the bike today , foot brake lever has been replaced greeced and switch adjusted, had the tank off air filter off, sanded a polished the top handle bar clamps as they were in a bit of a sorry state, fitted bars back on re atached top yoke, re routed throttle cables to the other side to give more cable at the bars, spent 30min trying to get the cables back in the trottle tube ..... and fitted it all back to gethere , then replaced the coolant bled system of air, and then couldent start the bike, so bumpe started it and now all is fine just wating on new front brake lever and pegs

oh mate just seen this, i am gutted for you! At least you are ok though, bike is replaceable you aren't!

P.S Those cables are a complete nightmare!

Originally Posted by liamsimpson

oh mate just seen this, i am gutted for you! At least you are ok though, bike is replaceable you aren't!

P.S Those cables are a complete nightmare!

Thanks

And yup they are a bloody pain, i decide to completely remove the air filter box when i did them just so i could do a proper job with them.

Well bikes on the road now although i think the fork are twisted so need to check those at some point to day

also found that the rear brake lever i got doesn't let my take the bike off the Abba stand so it will be going back and the foot pegs are pants quality so will send them back as well and just get the OEM stuff