Beemerboff
Registered user
The bikes with the smaller M/Cs have a brake lever with a longer nose, the bit that contacts the end of the piston.
Fitting the correct one will cure your problem.
There is a thread on this over on Adv riders , one guy made a cap to fit over the end of the piston, the other bodger drilled a small hole in the end of the nose and screwed in a dome head screw - it has worked OK for 50,000 km.
Putting a larger caliper on then increasing the M/C size kinda defeats the purpose- the gain in power with the bigger caliper mainly comes from the increase in the leverage / ratio, so not much point in immediately reducing it back to what you had before.
I have a 11mm with twin ATEs and it works perfectly once the nose length was adjusted.
Most modern bikes have an adjuster at this point , so there is nout wrong with the concept, you just have to make certain you dont go too for and block the bleed hole , or the brake will self activate as the fluid warms up-----
Fitting the correct one will cure your problem.
There is a thread on this over on Adv riders , one guy made a cap to fit over the end of the piston, the other bodger drilled a small hole in the end of the nose and screwed in a dome head screw - it has worked OK for 50,000 km.
Putting a larger caliper on then increasing the M/C size kinda defeats the purpose- the gain in power with the bigger caliper mainly comes from the increase in the leverage / ratio, so not much point in immediately reducing it back to what you had before.
I have a 11mm with twin ATEs and it works perfectly once the nose length was adjusted.
Most modern bikes have an adjuster at this point , so there is nout wrong with the concept, you just have to make certain you dont go too for and block the bleed hole , or the brake will self activate as the fluid warms up-----
