Different than normal banjo required

[Eddieb]

I'm in the process of upgrading the brakes on my bike and need to replace my 15degree? Banjo with a 45 degree one.

When I pulled the Banjo off off the caliper it has a different connector to what I'm used to, and none of the local bikes shops or Enzed have seen it before. Rather than the usual male fitting it has a concave female fitting.

Can anyone advise where I can get a 45 degree banjo with this fitting? thread is standard metric 10x1.25.

[F5 Dave]

That will teach you for foolin around with queer european brakes.

So can't you just reterminate the hose & use a std banjo fitting & bolt? or is the caliper some freaky Ger-man design precluding this? PS I presume you need to use olives on those hoses, they aren't WOF passable these days if road legal bike.

[Eddieb]

Cable is an aftermarket braided line, all the dots & E's but no branding. At face value it has what appears to be a fairly standard 10x125 thread nut fitting swagged or crimped to the line which the banjo screws into, from the outside it looks exactly the same as the ones that used to be on my 888 and i've seen on many other bikes. However inside the nut on the cable the cable ends in what looks like half a ball bearing with a hole through it for the fluid, and your typical male banjo doesn't fit in there.

There's not enough length in the hose to cut off the existing end and recrimp a new one on.

The caliper is a standard Nissin RF900 left hand unit and yes it's fitted onto my weird German engineering.

[F5 Dave]

From description that ball will be a one-time sealing olive, people get hurt by not replacing them. From the sounds you have a non-known brand.

A new line from Alert Eng in Auckland will sort you out properly & have the correct cert numbers on it, they use HEL line & fittings & are surprisingly cheap esp compared with bike shop & they do it for a living with proper test gear so I'd trust them.

Send the old one with what you want & make sure long enough not to be a problem with front wheel extended, as if that clunkbox would ever pull a wheelie

[Eddieb]

Thanks

The 800 clunkbox will wheelie off the throttle with a pillion. I haven't tried it on the PD however it's been airborne a few times.