Warranty update

Look, stop pissing about. Go and buy a Kawasaki, they're fucking
brilliant.

My 1400GTR was slightly out of warranty when the front disks started
"pulsing". "Not a problem" said the dealer (Bike Pavilion, of
Letchworth).

So, this morning I rode the bike over to them. I wandered upstairs to
their cafe and had a Full English Breakfast (with very tasty black
pudding) and a couple of cups of tea. For six quid. I read the paper,
and then got my keys back. "Take it easy on them for the first 50
miles".

Sorted.

Go and buy a Kawasaki from Bike Pavilion.

I *do* like it when a manufacturer and a dealer don't piss about, they
just fix a problem.

 

You could always buy a bike that doesn't destroy its brakes in under a
year.

Just a thought.

 

But they made *you pay* for breakfast, in their cafe.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD

Two years.

Report back on that POS Honda at the stage.

Uh-huh.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dave Emerson

In fairness, the cafe bloke was AWOL when I left, so I just left the
money.

So they didn't. :^PpPpPpP

 

A KTM SuperDuke for example. They do it in a matter of minutes but it's the
owners fault for not washing and drying the brake pads. Apparently.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

OK, I'm on my way. Can someone call T and explain?

 

That's cbeause they know SD is watching, and they're hoping he'll wander
in, which will recoup their costs five times over.

 

This is where you buy her more cheap earrings, Champ tells her that
she's ever so lucky to get those earrings and she goes off on one
isn't it?

 

Best not try the 'significant proportion of the
purchase price' line again. That might save you
money on a clapped out TDR, but I wouldn't recommend
it on a new 10r.

 

Cars warp their disks through driver behaviour, namely, keeping the brakes
applied after stopping from speed. The localised heatsoak through the pads
makes the disks cool unevenly & warp. Dunno if this applies to bikes but
can't see why it shouldn't.

Tim

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Gyp

Tell her I said it was OK.

You'll be *fine*.

 

Oh dear. You'd think that would have been known about, common knowledge
indeed, within the bike design world. Going back umm nearly 30 years,
BMW discs were notorious for cracking between the holes for exactly the
same reason. MoT testers knew to look out for it.

 

There's probably a lot more truth in that than you'd think. Warranty
work is hardly a profit centre but the cafe will be.

 

Are they cooling holes ?

I can see how a vented disc works (with the holes in a sandwich in
line with the airflow) but I thought that the drilled discs were
mostly to keep the pad face clean ?

Paul.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, zymurgy

Probably not.

 

heh. I'll grant that it does increase the surface area of the disc, so
radiant-heat wise, possibly.

Let's call that one a score draw ;-)

Paul.

 

Correct. They're to give water (& steam) somewhere to go when braking in
the wet.

Bikes in the early 70's with disc brakes would just make a strange noise in
the wet, with no initial deceleration and then lock-up if the brakes were
held on - unless you'd already hit the car/truck/child/WHY.

The culprit was the stainless steel material and was cured by either/or;
- cast iron discs (Brembo etc) that went rusty
- chrome-plated cast iron (Triumph, Norton?) that wore through the plating
in the swept area
- slots/holes
- new pad materials, e.g. sintered

It was a combination of the last two that worked best and is now standard.