Slick video. Makes it seem like we all need it to be able to ride. Problem is it is so abrupt and unpredictable in the application, that bothers me. Both my Gold Wing and FJR1300 were nearly seamless in the linkage.
Drinking actually lowers my BP...which I'm doing now.I guess your right, I went for a bike ride ... had a glass of red wine ... checked my BP
Hi
Great thread, I was guided here from the UK 1400GTR site, copy/paste of my post below, thing to remember here is mine is a trike: -
Having done nothing to the trike since last winter, apart from lots of riding, I have a growing urge to pull something apart soon .....
Issues: -
The traction control is a pain, it flashes up far to often when setting off in anything other than a straight line, this is because the ABS sensor is on one back wheel, and in a turn its either going a bit faster or slower than the front wheel, so the system decides to get involved, I don't need it, I have 2 large drive wheels providing loads of traction.
The ABS on the front wheel is great, but the ABS on the back is a pain, again because only one wheel is being sensed. This nearly caught me out last week pulling into a parking space, because I was turning right the right wheel was turning slower than the front so the system reduced the effort to the back wheels to nothing, causing me to have to quickly grab the front brake.
The linked brakes are a pain, despite my previous modifications to the back brakes I am still not 100% happy with them.
Solutions: -
Make a new sensor ring for the ABS and mount it on the front of the differential, this way it will average out both back wheels. Will need to do a load of maths to work out how many slots to cut in the disk, allowing for the size of the back wheels and the differential ratio.
Remove the ABS from the back brakes - make up a new pipe linking the master cylinder directly to the back brakes, but what do I do with the ABS pump?
I assume front and rear circuits are isolated from each other in the pump, so I can leave the front as it is, but what do I do with the original rear feed and output, blank them both off, link together ?
Your thoughts please
Richard
Could we please see some pics?
Remove the ABS from the back brakes - make up a new pipe linking the master cylinder directly to the back brakes, but what do I do with the ABS pump?
Richard
Yes you can, but should I put them here, don't want to hijack the thread?
Here's one anyway, Trike, Mrs and the dog.
Richard
See the very first post of this thread.
It should answer your question on how to plumb the ABS pump so that you will still have ABS on the front, but not on the rear.
Hijack away. Happens all the time.
I'm wondering if by now someone has figured out a better way to do this and keep the ABS without any linking?
Someone here or elsewhere said they had done it by blocking the ABS port to the right (linked) caliper and fitting the gen 1 hose from right to left caliper. That way they had ABS as per gen 1.
I am very interested with the linked brake fix discussed on this post. Unfortunately this post has been dead for a while.That's basically the same theory that I have. I was just wanting to use a "Y" block near the ABS Pump to connect the front callapers to the ABS Pumps outlet for the Front Left Callaper. I'd still have a short (8"-12") rubber brake line coming off of the ABS Pump outlet for the Front Right Callaper, but it wouldn't be connected to anything, but it would have a bleeder installed so that you'd be able to still fully bleed all of the air out of the system. I also "believe" that with this setup, when you have the "Low" brake selected, the front & rear would be un-linked, but when you had the "High" brake selected, they would be linked.
Hoping to see some updates on what is working and in particular what is mentioned in the quote above.
The 2015's supposedly have improved, lighter linked brakes. I was wondering how much better are they?
And weather or not this is just software or different hardware?
Which then begs the question could this be retrofitted to older ABS bikes? Enquiring minds want to know.