residual braking only - and the ferry leaves tomorrow

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hi - I'm waiting for BMW to send someone to look at my very static bike - all ready for France and Spain and the brake warning light is flashing like mad and I've only got residual braking....any advice?

They've sort of offered a hire car if they can't fix it....but there's half a dozen of us planning to explore the French Alps....on bikes and I know I can't keep up in the 1.1 fiesta that they'll give us....

Any (sensible) advice....???

By the way nearly 5k since April and no probs so far.

Ignore this if you read it after 22nd July - I'll either be on holiday or in jail for doing something illegal at BMW....
 
Lots of possibilities. The quick and easy one - is the handguard touching the brake lever?

Paul
 
Before BMW get there... do this.

After checking for contact with the hand protector,

Put your ear up against the front brake lever, slowly squeeze the lever, you should hear (right away) a tiny click, followed by the sounds of the lever moving against the piston, etc..

Repeat this for the rear brake pedal... If either microswitch is actuated, you fail the POST and you will get no servos...

If you are not contacting the hand-guard, and get no click, it's not a hard job to get the microswitch (at the front at least) back into rig,.. just a small allen key.. up to you really... if you get it wrong, you may get servos, but a red warning light, that means that the switch actuates too late (it's pressed in too far), and needs to "click" earlier... if you have the switch too far out, you get no servos...

If you want to know what the click should sound like, the clutch lever has one too, but it actuates at the point where the lever is depressed almost all the way...

Al...
 
When this happened to me, after a day of residual braking I discovered that a small black cover near the rear brake lever had become dislodged, preventing the brake lever from returning fully.

Hence, during the start-up check, the brain thought I was pressing the brake lever and disabled the servos.

:homer Doh!
 
If all else fails, try spraying the switches on the hand / foot levers with WD40 to dispel any moisture from bike washing, dust & dirt etc. Sometimes a bit of lubrication is all thats needed, you never know. Obviously avoid spraying near brake disk & pad surfaces.

Fingers crossed that you get it sorted in time for your touring holiday. :thumb
 
If I were you, I'd ride it to the dealers and watch over them while they sort it. Residual braking is sufficent once you get used to it so you might save some time by going to them.

Hope you get it fixed in time for the ferry.
 
It's all gone quiet !

Let us hope that the lack of further comment indicates that the problem was solved and that he has departed !
 
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