dpalmer_2991
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Afternoon all!
I'll try to write too much but I want to get the whole picture painted as best as I can so I can try and pin point the fault. But in short I have a serious vibration coming from the handle bars when I squeeze the front brake lever anymore than just a few mm.
I had my wheels powder coated a few months back and I'm 99.9% sure the fault wasn't there before this, if it was it would have been VERY minor, so much so that I couldn't notice it. So upon rebuilding my wheels and having them back on the bike I would get a bad vibration coming from the bars when using the front brake only, it would get worse the harder you brake and worse still if carrying a pillion. I took the front wheel off again and noticed I'd put the discs on the wrong way, they have a small lip on both inner edges due to wearing slightly more, so the pads and the discs weren't fitted how they were before paint. I put them back in the correct positions and for a few rides that seemed to do the trick pretty much. There was still a slight vibration but nothing to write home about.
A few rides more it seemed to be creeping back. A few days ago I took a 800mile trip solo, where you really only have the bike and the road to think about, this is where I really noticed how bad it is now. So if using the front brake for anything more that crawling up to traffic lights to a stop it causes a massive vibration on the handle bars. It's hard to tell if it's an up and down motion or side to side, the bike is still controllable, it's not tugging at the bars or anything like that, it's just a massive vibration, similar to what a jack hammer would feel like I imagine. It's always the same amount and that doesn't change and again, it's only from using the front brake.
There's one thing that happened on the trip that makes me think it's a ABS or booster fault opposed to a disc/pad problem. After stopping for fuel the brake failure light and the red warning tringle stayed illuminated, during this period the brake seemed like they weren't quite working as good as normal, maybe, but that may have been in my head. However, no vibration at all, nothing. I was only riding through a town so I wasn't going at any real speed and I turned it off and back on again at some traffic lights. The warning lights went out as normal and then the vibration was back. The scenario with the lights never happened again.
I also tried turning the ABS off briefly to see if that would solve it, brake failure light stayed illuminated but the problem still persisted.
Sorry to be so wordy but i wanted to get as much information out as possible in the hope that someone else has had this issue.
Cheers, Dan
I'll try to write too much but I want to get the whole picture painted as best as I can so I can try and pin point the fault. But in short I have a serious vibration coming from the handle bars when I squeeze the front brake lever anymore than just a few mm.
I had my wheels powder coated a few months back and I'm 99.9% sure the fault wasn't there before this, if it was it would have been VERY minor, so much so that I couldn't notice it. So upon rebuilding my wheels and having them back on the bike I would get a bad vibration coming from the bars when using the front brake only, it would get worse the harder you brake and worse still if carrying a pillion. I took the front wheel off again and noticed I'd put the discs on the wrong way, they have a small lip on both inner edges due to wearing slightly more, so the pads and the discs weren't fitted how they were before paint. I put them back in the correct positions and for a few rides that seemed to do the trick pretty much. There was still a slight vibration but nothing to write home about.
A few rides more it seemed to be creeping back. A few days ago I took a 800mile trip solo, where you really only have the bike and the road to think about, this is where I really noticed how bad it is now. So if using the front brake for anything more that crawling up to traffic lights to a stop it causes a massive vibration on the handle bars. It's hard to tell if it's an up and down motion or side to side, the bike is still controllable, it's not tugging at the bars or anything like that, it's just a massive vibration, similar to what a jack hammer would feel like I imagine. It's always the same amount and that doesn't change and again, it's only from using the front brake.
There's one thing that happened on the trip that makes me think it's a ABS or booster fault opposed to a disc/pad problem. After stopping for fuel the brake failure light and the red warning tringle stayed illuminated, during this period the brake seemed like they weren't quite working as good as normal, maybe, but that may have been in my head. However, no vibration at all, nothing. I was only riding through a town so I wasn't going at any real speed and I turned it off and back on again at some traffic lights. The warning lights went out as normal and then the vibration was back. The scenario with the lights never happened again.
I also tried turning the ABS off briefly to see if that would solve it, brake failure light stayed illuminated but the problem still persisted.
Sorry to be so wordy but i wanted to get as much information out as possible in the hope that someone else has had this issue.
Cheers, Dan