**Handbrake issue**
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STUNTRIDE FRONTLINE
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 13,621
From: GEORGIA
**Handbrake issue**
Ok, here is my setup. Magura 13mm master, hohey 4-piston, motul rbf600 brake fluid, and Honda pads on the caliper.
The more I ride, the less bite the handbrake has. Never looses pressure or fades at all. When I first start riding (brakes are cold) I can lock it up VERY easily with 1 finger. After about a hour I have to tugg the **** out of it to lock it up. This starts to make my hand hurt & its a pain in my *******!!!
Think its the pads possibly??
It kinda did this on my old f4i as well
The more I ride, the less bite the handbrake has. Never looses pressure or fades at all. When I first start riding (brakes are cold) I can lock it up VERY easily with 1 finger. After about a hour I have to tugg the **** out of it to lock it up. This starts to make my hand hurt & its a pain in my *******!!!
Think its the pads possibly??
It kinda did this on my old f4i as well 
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Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 6,766
From: NY/Bmore
Re: **Handbrake issue**
thats happend on every hb setup ive ever had...most recently the same setup as yours cept i had the single piston and used stock pads and then ebc's and still same effect...after about an hour of riding it gets squishy. sorry i dont have any advice for ya cuz i never fixed the prob i just dealt with it
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Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 7,019
From: Marietta, GA
Re: **Handbrake issue**
sounds like either a pad or fluid issue but you are using good **** on both ends there...
I use CASTROL GTLMA and never get fade. there is one level better Castrol fluid called SRF or something like that, it has a 500 something degree boil point.
oh one more thing to check, is your rotor glazed over at all? try hitting it with some light sandpaper or toss a new rotor on if you have one lying around...
I use CASTROL GTLMA and never get fade. there is one level better Castrol fluid called SRF or something like that, it has a 500 something degree boil point.
oh one more thing to check, is your rotor glazed over at all? try hitting it with some light sandpaper or toss a new rotor on if you have one lying around...
Thread Starter
STUNTRIDE FRONTLINE
Joined: Jun 2005
Posts: 13,621
From: GEORGIA
Re: **Handbrake issue**
sounds like either a pad or fluid issue but you are using good **** on both ends there...
I use CASTROL GTLMA and never get fade. there is one level better Castrol fluid called SRF or something like that, it has a 500 something degree boil point.
oh one more thing to check, is your rotor glazed over at all? try hitting it with some light sandpaper or toss a new rotor on if you have one lying around...
I use CASTROL GTLMA and never get fade. there is one level better Castrol fluid called SRF or something like that, it has a 500 something degree boil point.
oh one more thing to check, is your rotor glazed over at all? try hitting it with some light sandpaper or toss a new rotor on if you have one lying around...
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Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,757
From: syracuse, ny,
Re: **Handbrake issue**
thats happend on every hb setup ive ever had...most recently the same setup as yours cept i had the single piston and used stock pads and then ebc's and still same effect...after about an hour of riding it gets squishy. sorry i dont have any advice for ya cuz i never fixed the prob i just dealt with it
and did you get the "HH" ebc's?
