Hand brake works fine, but for some reason the foot master sticks and locks the rear tire. After using the foot brake you have to pump the hand brake to get the caliper to unlock. Anyone ever have this problem or know how to fix it??

 

Is the return spring on your foot brake working? Anybody else?

 

Yep, spring is working and the pedal is coming back to its original position. The caliper just locks up. Its like the master is not allowing fluid to travel back through it.

 

i would take the lines off and blow them out with air and take the piston out of the caliper and throw some new seals in just to rule it out its cheap enough to do

 

check your rear cali..... take it apart and clean the s h i t outta it... also bleed it right.... youll always have that lil pump when you switch from foot to hand brake..... get use to it...

 

caliper issue:YEAH my issue is a crck one

 

Not true if you have to pump up youve got air in your system, when you bleed it %100 right there is no pump up required.....

 

thats why i have dual caliper, no playing around its always ready

 

Also make sure to check the shaft coming out of the rear master, make sure it is straight. Sometimes the rearsets get bent and you dont even notice and will cause that to go in wrong. I know Starboy Scott had this problem. If you think it might be something inside of the master, send it into Bill and you know hell take care of you.

Blew out the C clip 2 years ago at the SL comp, sent it in the following Monday, had a new one by Wednesday

 

I'm not talking about the pump.....it physically locks the caliper up. Its not the caliper either. Switched calipers whenever I got everything painted and it still acts the same. Gotta be somewhere in the master.

 

he knows how to use a hb and doesnt need to get used to it ... the caliper is sticking - rendering the footbrake useless

 

Thank you....didn't think I was an idiot.

You used it saturday, you know what I'm talking about.

 

its the caliper. mine did the same thing. best bet is to go duel caliper. i ate shiit a few time last year because you have to kinda pump the hb after using the rear brake. bill make awsome stuff though no dout.

 

it did the same thing with 2 different calipers

 

Yep, used to do it before when my bike was shitty looking. Painted up new clipers and put them on and it still does it. Gotta be lines, fittings or master. Putting on new brembo tonight so we'll see if that makes a difference.

 

yo, what are you using for your master on the clipon?

i had the same problem...brakes would lock...you probably have an aftermarket lever for a handbrake...this is the problem. as soon as i put a stock lever on my gixxer 600 front radial master, the problem went away.

i'll bet money that is the problem.

 

actually sounds like a good possibility

 

saying ive bled my **** more than michael has had face lifts...
Still same thing.

 

maybe something wrong with the whole ideal???????

 

there will alwasy be some slight slop (pumping) when using only one caliper....all the pros use it so it must work