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marks
5th December 2007, 20:36
go here (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Motorbikes/Motorbikes/Dirt-bikes/photos/a-130115988/p-54436864.htm)and click through to image 4
cooneyr
5th December 2007, 20:43
WTF!!!!! Who the hell though that would be a good idea:blink::wacko:

Cheers R
Transalper
5th December 2007, 21:54
I noticed some of the Chinese bikes have pretty bulky caliper setups, but that's a bit of a joke.
NordieBoy
6th December 2007, 07:00
And the size of the front disc, that's off one of their pocketbikes!

Single piston front, dual piston rear?
Coyote
6th December 2007, 07:11
Haha, with that kind of improvisation, I wonder what's replaced the piston :blink:

I noticed on a Zongshen (or some other chinese brand, that's the only one I can think of) that the rear wheels hub was cast off a drum brake but they put a disk brake right next to it :lol:
warewolf
6th December 2007, 15:43
capable of at least 90kmIs that as far as it will go before catastrophic failure?
marks
6th December 2007, 19:49
Single piston front, dual piston rear?

boy .. don't you know anything?

You sit with your weight over the back wheel - thats why it needs the most powerful brake
Big Dog
6th December 2007, 20:07
Just like a milkshake, only brake fluid.

1000 ocilations per minute the brake fluid would be so aerated that the twin piston design would be weaker than the single with its resevoir on the bars.....
NordieBoy
6th December 2007, 21:37
Just like a milkshake, only brake fluid.

1000 ocilations per minute the brake fluid would be so aerated that the twin piston design would be weaker than the single with its resevoir on the bars.....

Ahhh, ABS on the cheap then.
homer
6th December 2007, 21:47
oh there just have to something different
and there all backwards over there
so i guess there going to put the seat on the bottom next?
NordieBoy
7th December 2007, 06:34
oh there just have to something different
and there all backwards over there
so i guess there going to put the seat on the bottom next?

I put the seat on the bottom, it says to do that in the manual.
"Seat to be putting on bottom before to be sparking into life."
Grahameeboy
7th December 2007, 06:37
Odd looking fairing? Maybe that is to assist braking?
Wolf
10th December 2007, 19:04
"Raven".


As in "raven mad"?


Just a thought...
deanohit
10th December 2007, 20:10
Single piston front, dual piston rear?

Yep, same on mine, it has a large single piston on the front and 2 small pistons on the back.<_<

Thank god my fluid reservoir isn't in that same spot, mines tucked away safe behind the pillion peg.

And Coyotes right, I just looked at the rear hub on my bike and it is cast for a drum brake, and fitted with a disk. :laugh:
GaZBur
10th December 2007, 20:53
When I first looked I just assumed it was someone doing a backyard improvisation. But now I have read the thread are you telling us that this was done deliberately when the bike was made????
Somebody designed it that way?!?!?
NordieBoy
10th December 2007, 21:10
"Designed" may be too strong a word really.

:D
Wolf
10th December 2007, 23:08
But now I have read the thread are you telling us that this was done deliberately when the bike was made????
Somebody designed it that way?!?!?


"Designed" may be too strong a word really.
Ya beat me to it, ya bugger!

I think the term "cobbled together" might be closer but still carries far too much connotation that the perpetrator may have known what he was doing...