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Offline maxtog

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Re: Linked brakes fix?
« Reply #20 on: March 14, 2017, 03:28:51 PM »
But I use the rear to tighten the line in a corner if I get in hot. Your solution is ....?  Never get in hot?  Prolly not gonna happen. How do you know where the limit is if you don't go over it every once in a while?

In the weakly linked mode (which is probably still too strong for many people), you can still use the rear pedal and it will activate mostly the rear brake.  So as long as you are not in way too hot, it should still be, generally, OK.  But you are right that there is just no way to really know how much front is being added.

Speaking for myself, I have no idea where the limit is, and I don't care to find out :)  But that doesn't change my stance that Kawasaki should have offered at least one more mode- OFF.  Preferably two more so there would be Strong (probably like our current strong), Medium (probably like our current weak) , Weak (which is weaker than our weak), and Off.
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Re: Linked brakes fix?
« Reply #21 on: March 14, 2017, 03:35:36 PM »
How about mostly off?   That would be between weak and off.
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Re: Linked brakes fix?
« Reply #22 on: March 14, 2017, 03:36:34 PM »
How about mostly off?   That would be between weak and off.

Or even "substantially off"?  :)
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Re: Linked brakes fix?
« Reply #23 on: March 14, 2017, 04:38:32 PM »
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Re: Linked brakes fix?
« Reply #24 on: March 14, 2017, 06:16:32 PM »
Or even "substantially off"?  :)
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Re: Linked brakes fix?
« Reply #25 on: March 15, 2017, 08:13:32 AM »
I am pretty sure they were linked, since the ABS for the 2010 is the same as all the other gen2 and it think it was all part of the same offering (the optional ABS system on the gen1 was not the same).

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Re: Linked brakes fix?
« Reply #26 on: March 23, 2017, 04:33:02 AM »
Wonderful machine, downfall is brakes, I have the fix which was delivered about 2 weeks ago, but just had no time to fit it, I will soon though.
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Re: Linked brakes fix?
« Reply #27 on: March 23, 2017, 08:34:25 AM »
Wonderful machine, downfall is brakes...

Not on the 08/09 bikes..
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