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Old 11-Apr-2005, 15:42
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Rear brake

following on from the other rear brake post, what's the solution to keep the bugger working ?

I do use the rear brake when playing in the hairpins in the Alps as I'm generally 2-up and braking hard into the bends, so need as much brakes as I can get and want to save the wrists a bit.

On both the ST4S and the 996 it worked fine until I started to give the bike some stick. I then think the heat off the engine doing lots of high revs low speed work cooked the fluid in the master cylinder.
I suspect the same will happen on the 998 too.

So what is the answer ?
Has anyone managed to keep the rear working ?

I have thought about mounting a lump of hard plastic (Delrin ?) between the master and crank case to help isolate some of the heat in a similar way as it gets used between carbs and barrels. Anyone tried this ?

Any thought gratefully received.
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