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99buellx1
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 05:57 pm: |
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Says Brake Liquid Circulation http://gallery.mac.com/thomas_wanner#100114/brake- liquid-circualtion&bgcolor=black |
Xnoahx
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 06:22 pm: |
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My guess is it is a method for circulating the brake fluid to avoid overheating the fluid. I am more interested in the Barracuda air box cover |
Stirz007
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 07:17 pm: |
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I'm surprised to see the factory can - figured they'd drop that chunk off there.. |
Dannybuell
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 07:46 pm: |
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Nice gallery! On the front 1125-1190 picture was the 1190 fork larger and with a bit more rake or was that the camera angle? |
Boogiman1981
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 10:04 pm: |
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how does that work exactly? and vented rotor that is cool!!(yaya) |
Sknight
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 10:04 pm: |
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It's somewhat common for endurance applications. Even back in the 60's the SCCA cars used it to keep the brake fluid cool. Actually works pretty well. |
Boogiman1981
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 10:08 pm: |
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so hows does it work? any links? i am very interested in this |
Stirz007
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 10:14 pm: |
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Same question - do you crack the bleed screw open just a hair and route that back to the reservoir? |
Boogiman1981
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 10:19 pm: |
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that disc im guessing is custom cut? |
Ratbuell
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 10:31 pm: |
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"Unfinished Business". Awesome. |
Toona
| Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 11:00 pm: |
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I like the vinyl wrap that looks like it was made from the Buell poster artwork |
Smoke
| Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 05:49 am: |
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the disc is available at EBR! tim |
Arcticcr
| Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 08:35 am: |
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Dannybuell, In regards to the forks, I have no idea from the external view if the internals are different. However, those forks are BPF (big piston forks), new technology from Showa. They’re the same type of forks introduced a year ago on the ZX6R. I believe that was the first bikes to get them; anyone, feel free to correct me. J |
Jdugger
| Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 08:43 am: |
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That rotor is the 5MM finned rotor. Surprising to me is they are still using the original OEM mounting hardware. EBR sells a new hardware setup with a diaphragm spring instead of the compression spring in the wheel. Between the wheel and rotor is a new spacer and a copper washer. The design is to float the rotor a little less, and far more efficiently dissipate brake heat into the wheel itself. My experience with it so far is it's great... Between the finned rotor and new mounting system I don't built up nearly the same levels of heat in the rotors, and I far less regret NOT getting the left side remote adjuster for the brake lever. |
Jdugger
| Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 08:47 am: |
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Oh, and it's time for them to replace their drive bushings: See the piling of the stainless steel making a burnished edge on the rotor right under the fastener? That's drive bushing wear cutting into the rotor itself. I ruined more than one rotor not keeping an eye on that... |
Boogiman1981
| Posted on Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 09:48 am: |
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So how exactly does the recirculation work? |
S21125r
| Posted on Friday, April 23, 2010 - 01:22 pm: |
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Not sure how the recirculation works but I'm going to take a guess - there are probably two pistons in the master cylinder and one closes off it's bleed hole a tad later than the other. So for every brake activation, a small amount of "used" fluid is returned to res from one line, and is replaced with "fresh" fluid from the other line. |
Torquaholic
| Posted on Friday, April 23, 2010 - 02:04 pm: |
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see this link for a short description from Pegasus Racing: http://www.sporttwin.com/index.php?/blog/9/entry-5 11-the-pegasus-is-flying-in-2010/page___gocomments __1__st__20?s=b0bcbdf299fbe9a5c2f4b3e0c28d4253 |