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Old 02-Jul-2004, 13:20
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Now I could be wrong here, so don't slap me right...But Les, I think you've got the wrong brake lines here and because of that, you've actually fitted them upside down.

Here's my thinking. My bike has ordinary Brembo Goldlines, at the caliper end the thread to take the bleed nipple is vertical and comes out of the top of the caliper. Therefore, you need a 90 degree banjo at the caliper end to direct the lines straight up the forks. At the master cylinder end, one of the banjo's is straight, the other is a 30 degree one, so that it just splays out to clear the straight one.

From memory (and this is where I think I could be wrong), the 4 pad Brembos bleed nipple exits from the side of the caliper, so that you need a straight banjo at the caliper end to point the lines in the right direction. So what you need under those circumstances is one brake line with a straight banjo on each end, and one with a straight banjo and one 30 degree one (so that you get the straight/30degree arrangement at the master cylinder).

So, I reckon they've made up lines for the standard Goldlines, so that when you come to fit them to 4 pads, you would think it's pretty obvious that you don't fit the 90 degree banjos on the calipers otherwise they'd be sticking out like dumbos ears, so you would naturally fit the straight ones to the calipers, leaving you with a distinctly wrong fitment at the master cylinder.
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