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Old 11-12-09, 08:53 AM   #1
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Default Band round the brake fluid reservoir

See this quite a lot - but why do people do it? I've heard a number of offerings, none of them really plausible, such as:
  • in case of a spill (seems to me that if the fluid eats paintwork, it'll eat the average sock)
  • to stop UV light degrading the fluid (I didn't know brake fluid is UV sensitive - is it??)
  • to stop distracting the rider (you'd be very sad if you sat and watched the reservoir)
  • to stop it freezing (ridiculous)
  • fashion (possible)
but I'm guessing that nobody really knows.

Do you have a band on your reservoir? Why?

What does the org think?
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Old 11-12-09, 09:40 AM   #2
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Default Re: Band round the brake fluid reservoir

Probably another racer style thing?
Believe racers used to use these when British singles were all the rage & vibration would shake everything so hard that fluid leapt out of the breather. The sponge muff would keep it off paintwork etc.
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Old 11-12-09, 09:57 AM   #3
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Default Re: Band round the brake fluid reservoir

Because your a tart and you own a gixxer in toothpaste colours (or if you don't own a gixxer you are just a tart)
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Old 11-12-09, 09:57 AM   #4
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Default Re: Band round the brake fluid reservoir

I thought it was just numptys wanting to complete the sportsbike look. However your top one might well prompt me to do it, hopefully the sock would absorb a fair bit of the fluid in a spill.
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Old 11-12-09, 10:00 AM   #5
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I thought it was just numptys wanting to complete the sportsbike look. However your top one might well prompt me to do it, hopefully the sock would absorb a fair bit of the fluid in a spill.
If your bike is so bashed up the fluid reservoir breaks, chances are that a bit of brake fluid damage will be fairly insignificant in the repair bill...
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If your bike is so bashed up the fluid reservoir breaks, chances are that a bit of brake fluid damage will be fairly insignificant in the repair bill...
Not if it's an SV!
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Old 11-12-09, 10:44 AM   #7
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Default Re: Band round the brake fluid reservoir

i have an r ang g one... purely as it was free and and i thought i might aswell put it on
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Apparently racers use it for reason 1 on your list. I have one (or had, it was a free one with a magazine and the elastic's gone on it now) because the racers have them.
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Old 11-12-09, 11:14 AM   #9
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Default Re: Band round the brake fluid reservoir

A band?
Rubber band? eh?


oh you mean one of those kind of fabric glove things? That'll be to keep it warm thenSome people like to pamper their bikes a little too much.

And no I don't have one..too chav. Besides one of my reservoirs don't even have the metal clip to hold the lid on....somewhere in YCs garage I believe
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Some people like to pamper their bikes a little too much.
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