I've suffered from warped front discs. Had 1 set replaced under warranty at 12,000 miles and the new set has just started pulsating/juddering again
If this is how I ride normal with one lever, you with a foot added, how is it we are going through disc? Guilty! I keep my hand over the lever, but I am not on the binders throwing heat at it as I ride. We have the same mileage on our bikes. I have yet to feel a warp. There should be less heat at the front with the addition using the foot at the rear I would think? My only guess is you are long on the brake apply. You hang on the levers too long, build heat, meet and greet, Pulse Lever.
I'll give you an example of brake apply:
Exit ramp said [45mph]. I'm on the freeway [65mph] passing cars that are speeding past that sign post. I step the speed up even more at the exit. This exit turns with a quick right, has a sweeping arc back to left, then down straight to a stop sign. Nasty FAST!
This is a really bitch'en turn where you better brake hard before you turn right. Follow me in. Again, I am not thinking thread. I hammer the lever. This begins the chatter. I have a rolling wheel, right? It's still rolling, but say a lot slower now.*
Are you still following me in? I'll video it next time out before I swap for a new front tire and pad set. If that camera moves, oh well? If I see daylight because of that hop, and with that fairing in the way, I can explain the old days of throwing the brake on; I modified the guts inside a set of old forks if you can imagine the night and day difference today. Anyway, I closed off 2 holes. Never drilled the other smaller holes, rather, experimented with 2 holes that started with 4 of the same size holes. Well, needless to say, I could see daylight as the bike hopped like it does now on the braking.
Without that video to capture the chatter and see if the forks stay planted, the tire is the tuning fork, where instead of up and down, she is back and forth. I'm now hard on the brakes, feel this shit under me and if I do not get rid of it, I'm gonna feel something funny on the turn in.
What was left to do was to release and apply again.* Much lighter, btw, because I am slow enough on the second bite and that was, hammerlessooth is how to describe it. Gotta be the deep send to the front forks initially that sets it off. If I am less deep in the tubes on the 2nd go around, the tire did not change those few mph differences in rubber wear if you want to think the, 'step pattern.' Say I am at that slower speed and send the forks deep again on the same hard bite. What do you think would happen? I was too busy to retry that, thank you but no thanks. I ran out of time.
What do you think? And I had that camera cranked down in position but took it off today. Yep, I was running out of time for myself to blow off that little window of time to just go out and test more. This was the canyon loop run and that bike is the Crisp!
I was so pissed off from that other post, some guy in a canyon came speeding up on me and I was cooking pretty good being plain mean for a race. Once I saw him, I started to go into a zone. Fucking guy just quit on me seeing me pull away at will. We came up on a car, I let him pass. All black with one pipe snaked under the seat. Is that a Yam?
Thing is still rich as hell.
OH yeah, and I flew down some ramp onto the main road and here comes some CHP hot on the pedal. I lift. Glide sorta smooth and not take a lot of road like from solid line to broken line. I'm more straightening the road out. He's on my ass seeing if I do something like who knows what. He sure had time to punch the plate in, sniffing my 02 that close. Now he backs off, can't get me but here I am still fucking with every soul on earth starts fucking with me. He's following my line and going off road a little like your average driver crosses the painted line I'm that smooth and straight while riding [follow me in].
* Last updated by: Hub on 4/26/2010 @ 12:27 AM *
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