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Fully adjustable suspension is great on the street, if you carry a passenger or luggage from time to time. -Sean
 
I have two bikes with the Hayes HFX 9 brakes. They are quite possibly the worst disc brakes I've ever tried on a bike.

There is a company called Hope that makes 2, 4 and 6 piston monoblock calipers coupled with floating rotors for Downhill and Freeride bikes. They seem to be the current state of the art for MB brakes. When the cash is good, I intend to upgrade at least one of the bikes to the 6-piston HOPE setup in the front and 4-piston in the rear. -Sean
 
And what's wrong with everyone riding Japanese 750 fours?



Most of the parts/repair places would be out of business, but is that a bad thing?



You can freeze 'em to the sidewalk, submerge them in a lagoon, set 'em on fire, etc...and they'll still start and run. And keep running.



Long live the Japanese in-line 4! Down with V-twins! Or any twin for that matter. The Olsen Twins being on top of that list.



I propose a new insight group be formed: MSAT, translated to Mad Squids Against Twins.
 
Re: tell Kawi you want it

I e mailed Kawi off their web site to bring it to the USA back in Dec. The write ups in the UK mags had me ready to lay $ down. If enough of you e-mail them, possibly it will show up here. Since then I bought a Buell Lightning XB9S and am thrilled I did. Sorry Kawi you snooze you lose.
 
Naw, use an aluminum wheel but have a perimeter rotor bolted to each side. The heat would be spread out to the entire rotor so I don't think it would be a big problem. Heat must not be a biggy on the Buell perimeter rotor. Mostly I just want people to think outside the box so to speak. Disc brakes today are powerful but they don't seem to have a retractor mechanism designed into them so they always drag even after you let off the brake.
 
OK, Disposable...But Reliable

Japanese in-line fours are rediculously reliable. Earlier this year BIKE magazine (UK) did a test where they ran a Ninja 600 without any oil or coolant just to see how long it would last.

The exhaust glowed red hot at one point (they took some amazing pictures of the thing about to melt down in about four diffent ways).

It never completely failed. When they were done they filled it with fluids AND IT RAN.

So, yeah, Japanese fours are more common than empty beer cans in a frat house. But ya can't kill 'em.

Come to think of it, KPaul has a Ninja 600. Hey, dude, apparently checking the oil is optional.....
 
None of my (motorcycle) disc brakes have any pad or caliper contact to the rotor when the lever is released.



If your motorcycle is lightly dragging the pads on the rotor, you should shim the caliper so that that side doesn't contact. If it drags evenly on each side, you should rebuild the caliper, to get rid of the stiction in the pistons.
 
Hey... I'll be buying a cruiser to one day... when I'm like.... 45.... and am going bald.... and need to pretend to be a "bad boy" to get it up.



Hey.. are they still giving away viagra samples with the Vulcan 2000?
 
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