braided lines...legal????

[TygerTung]

If you love your braided lines so much, why not just wack on some rubber ones for a wof, then put the braided ones back on when you get home.

I take no responsobility for the concequences though.

[Brian d marge]

I know what the Law is trying to fix , those savages who think they can fix stuff, like lowering a car by cutting the springs and zip tying the now flopping freely spring to something as its now noisy

But what happens if someone like me , comes along builds my own brake system from quality stuff * there are economy hoses from good suppliers* and does it properly

only to have a less experience tester ( which I am sure there are) come along and say no???

Now MOST testers are pretty good and reasonable, but there is always the odd sod. ( Has that old tit retired at sockburn testing station???)

I would be pissed

Stephen

[imdying]

The problem is, you will eventually sell your bike. The next guy will want to do xxx to his brakes, maybe just clean the calipers or the forks or the wheel or the... He'll undo the hose at the fitting, instead of removing the banjo bolt (don't laugh seen it done more than once). Hey presto, your assemble once hoses are now reassembled, and dodgy. That's why crimped fittings are the only legal product.

I haven't seen any substandard screw together braided lines (not saying they don't exist), but it isn't the product that's the problem. It's the monkeys who put em together, either now or in the future.

Also, there's no safety backup built into them, when the inner goes, it's all over, no outer casing to save you. They also can't see their condition during a warrant. They always look new on the outside, no matter the condition of the inner.

If you're in Christchurch, and you've made your own, come see me on a Saturday morning (me PM) before you fit them. I'll put your hoses through a tester. It'll cost you nothing, which is cheap for piece of mind.

[sefer]

Got the WOF at VTNZ station in sockburn. The guy (he rides/fixes bikes too) looked a little dubious about my homebuilt speedo/odo, but he didn't have the slightest problem with the brake lines.

I found Sockburn testing station a bit dodgey personally, too my zxr in last week and they barely looked at the thing. There is at least one thing (my repaired right peg/brake bracket) that I would have thought they'd take a good look at and they didn't even touch... Of course this is the same place that passed the same thing last time when it was cracked and not repaired.

[Brian d marge]

It's the monkeys who put em together, either now or in the future.


I'll put your hoses through a tester. It'll cost you nothing, which is cheap for piece of mind.

Both very good points. the monkey one is probably the be all and of the whole point !
The Ends I would use are Earls double nipple hose end, these are reusable BUT can be screwed up by even the most competant

I supose the thing that gets my back up is a law that say the competant have to go to someone else ( who may in fact be LESS competant ) to get something certified ?

I am the first person to work WITH someone /thing , but if its an Arse .. ( or I have to go out of my way to do a simple thing ) I get narked

Stephen