Front brakes locked on

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:19 am

ChasesDragons wrote: Is it possible to install the earlier non BMW-branded callipers on the newer bikes? Mine is a 2003 non-ABS and the brakes are sticking so hard that I could not wheel it around.
Thnx

Earlier Brembo badged calipers can be fitted but you will need to also find old style fork lowers due to different mounting points and smaller (305mm) discs from the same era of bike.
You could go whole hog and fit AP calipers and discs like wot we got

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:21 am

ChasesDragons wrote:Might as well exhume this thread than start a new one in the same vein.
Thnx

PS well done for searching and resurrecting an old thread - that's the way to do it

ChasesDragons · Post by **ChasesDragons** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:24 am

Lloyd,
Different forks and disk??! Phfft!, screw that for a game of soldados. I couldn't match a pair of socks, let alone that mate. So thnx for the save.

APs - arent they VERY expensive? And arent they meant for track use, so need a bit of looking after for a road-mucker?

Anyone know of threads in here about unlinking brakes?

boxerpan wrote: You could go whole hog and fit AP calipers and discs like wot we got

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:34 am

ChasesDragons wrote:Lloyd,
APs - arent they VERY expensive? And arent they meant for track use, so need a bit of looking after for a road-mucker?

Anyone know of threads in here about unlinking brakes?

Yes and yes and I find I like to look after my brakes coz I find them quite useful

When you ask about unlinking brakes do you mean running two lines off the master cylinder - one straight to each caliper and gettin rid of all of the ironmongeryover the forks ?

ChasesDragons · Post by **ChasesDragons** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:52 am

Yeah, thats the one.....so obviously it has been effectively unlinked before? Are there pros and cons to doing this? Does someone supply ready made hoses to do this?

Mine is a 41K 2003 R1100s.

Udhi

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:22 am

ChasesDragons wrote:Yeah, thats the one.....so obviously it has been effectively unlinked before?
Mine is a 41K 2003 R1100s.

Udhi

Are you asking if the front and back brake are linked like wot H0nda do ?

ChasesDragons · Post by **ChasesDragons** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:41 am

Yeah Lloyd, I remember a similar issue with Honda Blackbirds and the naked version of it. Is it just as easy to unlink the brakes of the R1100s? Does anyone have a readymade kit for the job? Has anyone done this on this forum? Are there references to read up on?

I have done a search on keywords - UNLINK, UNLINKED and UNLINKING. There were few or no results. Pity that we can't search just the titles, eh mod? eh? eh?

Udhi

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:00 pm

ChasesDragons wrote:Yeah Lloyd, I remember a similar issue with H*nda Blackbirds and the naked version of it. Is it just as easy to unlink the brakes of the R1100s? Does anyone have a readymade kit for the job? Has anyone done this on this forum? Are there references to read up on?

I have done a search on keywords - UNLINK, UNLINKED and UNLINKING. There were few or no results. Pity that we can't search just the titles, eh mod? eh? eh?

Udhi

There's nothing much on here about linked brakes/unlinking brakes because the S doesn't have linked brakes. Front and back on seperate circuits unless you have ABS in which case it all comes together in some form under the fuel tank.
What they were on about in the thread above was getting rid of all the junctions and pipes on the front run and running a pipe straight to each caliper off a longer master cylinder banjo.

ChasesDragons · Post by **ChasesDragons** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:16 pm

Oh right. I remember doing something similar on a ZXR750R to help bleeding.

Is that the same reason to do it on the R1100S front? Mine is thankfully NOT ABS, I made that a priority in my search.

Edit: **"NOT" inserted.

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:54 pm

ChasesDragons wrote: Mine is a 2003 non-ABS
Thnx

ABS or nonABS, make your mind up

winger · Post by **winger** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:11 pm

Blimey you've lost me

ChasesDragons · Post by **ChasesDragons** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 9:27 pm

boxerpan wrote:ABS or nonABS, make your mind up

Non-ABS, as in no ABS on my bike.

I thought the no ABS bike had linked brakes anyway, hence all the questions.

throttlemeister · Post by **throttlemeister** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:27 am

No linkies and no power assist for us non-ABS riders.

boxerpan · Post by **boxerpan** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:53 am

ChasesDragons wrote: Mine is thankfully ABS, I made that a priority in my search.

Right now that we have confirmation - non ABS, no linked brakes

minivin · Post by **minivin** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:35 pm

binding callipers aye, would this be the "TOKICO" shite that BMW decided to fit instead of real callipers like Brembo's?

Well, with 46k miles on the clock and been having binding brakes for the past 10k with about ten cases of the bike coming to a halt and initially thinking it was pattern part brake pads that were the cause, I stripped my callipers and found this:

The corrosion had got behind all of the dust seals, and behind two of the main seals, pushing the seals hard against the pistons and binding them out.

quality, my arse