I was warned, but it has taken 76,000 miles for it to happen. I have to say, I do like the power brakes, WHEN THEY WORK.
I magine the scene. Tearing down through the Welsh Hills somewhere near Brecon, good steep descent with lovely swoopy bits, trees and steep drops with rivers in the bottom.......come round a good left hander doing about 65, loaded up.....roads up and there is man standing there with a STOP/GO lollipo....only I couldn't, stop that is. I hauled on the front lever and carried on as if nothing had happened. Well, it hadn't, the brake warning lights flashed to say I had no brakes. Thanks for the confirmation, but my soiled trousers had already told me that.
I did manage to negotiate all hazards and brought the bike to a sort of stop in amongst the resurfacing equipment! You should have seen their faces.
I got recovered home, took nearly 9 hours of mucking about on relay trucks (AA were despatched by Carol Nash folks....next to useless, but better than still pushing home from down there.)
Right, so the situation is the bike is now at home, with no brakes and I need to get it fixed. I don't fancy a 250 mile drive down the motorway network to Steptoe with no brakes. I can't afford the £10 million bill Pidcocks will charge me...so who can I go to to sort out a servo problme please? I am happy to lose the servo, which is what Neil has suggested, but would like to keep the ABS (but apparently that isn't an option.
Why is it the brick engined bikes don't seem to have the issues with the servo that the GS does? Or is it that they do, but we just don't hear about them?
Anyway, all suggestions welcome, other than those suggesting a box of matches!
I magine the scene. Tearing down through the Welsh Hills somewhere near Brecon, good steep descent with lovely swoopy bits, trees and steep drops with rivers in the bottom.......come round a good left hander doing about 65, loaded up.....roads up and there is man standing there with a STOP/GO lollipo....only I couldn't, stop that is. I hauled on the front lever and carried on as if nothing had happened. Well, it hadn't, the brake warning lights flashed to say I had no brakes. Thanks for the confirmation, but my soiled trousers had already told me that.
I did manage to negotiate all hazards and brought the bike to a sort of stop in amongst the resurfacing equipment! You should have seen their faces.I got recovered home, took nearly 9 hours of mucking about on relay trucks (AA were despatched by Carol Nash folks....next to useless, but better than still pushing home from down there.)
Right, so the situation is the bike is now at home, with no brakes and I need to get it fixed. I don't fancy a 250 mile drive down the motorway network to Steptoe with no brakes. I can't afford the £10 million bill Pidcocks will charge me...so who can I go to to sort out a servo problme please? I am happy to lose the servo, which is what Neil has suggested, but would like to keep the ABS (but apparently that isn't an option.
Why is it the brick engined bikes don't seem to have the issues with the servo that the GS does? Or is it that they do, but we just don't hear about them?
Anyway, all suggestions welcome, other than those suggesting a box of matches!
