Sidecar Racing

[Drew]

dot 5 is silicon based and not used that often, are you sure dot 4.1 even exists most stuff is either dot 4 or 5.1 for race use

Off to research this. But my understanding was that the Dot 5 stuff is shit.

[scrivy]

my understanding was that the Dot 5 stuff is shit.

Why would you put shit in your brake reservouir?
Do you use your fingers??
Don't bite ya nails like I do, do ya?

[Drew]

Off to research this. But my understanding was that the Dot 5 stuff is shit.

Once again, I only retained half of what I was told.

Dot 5 works mean at high temoerature, but cannot be mixed with anything else. So replacing seals and flushing lines perfectly free of non silicon based fluid is essential, or it'll eat your seals and then turn brakes into shit.

It does absorb air though, so bleeding should be done with a pressure bleeder instead of the conventional way.

Dot 5.1 is different stuff again, but I didn't look into it for lack of time.

I really have to look shit up before I talk.

As you were.

[Fast Eddie]

How much are you using it during the races?

never..

but after race i give it a squeeze and it always goes to the end of its travel. gotta pump it to get pressure back. it has fresh fluid in it from Nev but unsure what DOT.. it has always been like that pre crash tho..

when its cold its ok.. will look at it in chch.

[scrivy]

or it'll eat your seals...

WTF???? Muff diving seals??? What discovery channel porn are you watching???

I really have to look shit up before I talk.

Usually my forte.....

[Tony.OK]

Once again, I only retained half of what I was told.

Dot 5 works mean at high temoerature, but cannot be mixed with anything else. So replacing seals and flushing lines perfectly free of non silicon based fluid is essential, or it'll eat your seals and then turn brakes into shit.

It does absorb air though, so bleeding should be done with a pressure bleeder instead of the conventional way.

Dot 5.1 is different stuff again, but I didn't look into it for lack of time.

I really have to look shit up before I talk.

As you were.

5.1 is same as 4 mate, just around 10 degree higher boiling point, so great for racing.

And here was me expecting some abuse from ya bud, you gone soft now ya on a trike? My round next time you're up this way mate, we can have a good session looking at Wikipedia

[scrivy]

never..

but after race i give it a squeeze and it always goes to the end of its travel. gotta pump it to get pressure back. it has fresh fluid in it from Nev but unsure what DOT.. it has always been like that pre crash tho..

when its cold its ok.. will look at it in chch.

It's either getting dragged ever so slightly on the disc, or its acquiring the latent heat from the disc from your other caliper. New fluid for a start.
Have you looked at the pads? See if they're bottoming out on the caliper, and too close to the disc - if so, surface grind them down a bit.

[Kickaha]

never..

but after race i give it a squeeze and it always goes to the end of its travel. gotta pump it to get pressure back. it has fresh fluid in it from Nev but unsure what DOT.. it has always been like that pre crash tho..

when its cold its ok.. will look at it in chch.

Unless it has some serious drag it's unlikely to be boiling, m/c may need a rebuild

[Kickaha]

if so, surface grind them down a bit.

You just reminded me about a car we had in at work, it'd been in and had a brake job before it got to us and must have had a bit of a lip on the outer edge of the disc, someone had "machined" it off with an angle grinder

[scrivy]

You just reminded me about a car we had in at work, it'd been in and had a brake job before it got to us and must have had a bit of a lip on the outer edge of the disc, someone had "machined" it off with an angle grinder

PMSL!!! Shaun accused Bob of doing that at HD a year or two back!!!

[sidecar bob]

PMSL!!! Shaun accused Bob of doing that at HD a year or two back!!!

When in fact I was using Burts emery wheel in a grinder to de glaze the discs on a CB900f pre 82 bike.
The bloke went way faster, so it must have worked.

[Fast Eddie]

It's either getting dragged ever so slightly on the disc, or its acquiring the latent heat from the disc from your other caliper. New fluid for a start.
Have you looked at the pads? See if they're bottoming out on the caliper, and too close to the disc - if so, surface grind them down a bit.

something drags on the front wheel for sure.. its what AJ and I were looking at after first practice...

Unless it has some serious drag it's unlikely to be boiling, m/c may need a rebuild

something is dragging on the front wheel for sure.. after a race u pull the clutch in and it slows down pretty quick! prob costing me a second a lap and the fuel economy! the hippies will be most displeased.

[scrivy]

When in fact I was using Burts emery wheel in a grinder to de glaze the discs on a CB900f pre 82 bike.
The bloke went way faster, so it must have worked.

Peoples perceptions of events that they have never bothered to ask people about, but are prepared to slander them on social media.
Go figure....

[scrivy]

something is dragging on the front wheel for sure.. after a race u pull the clutch in and it slows down pretty quick! prob costing me a second a lap and the fuel economy! the hippies will be most displeased.

Has to be the auxillary brake - esp. if its gettn hot! Unbolt it, or remove the pads, and see if there's still dragging going on.
Bob and I can take a gander - I'm going South for the Nats - but now only to spectate....

I can be you'se fellas pit bitch..........

(Dropped bolt here, stripped nut there, tools left on the rig, items left undone......)

ooo I can be Traceys umbrella boy.......

I might even get a ride on the AGIP bike....... Scratch that thought..... I don't want to lose another life....

[sidecar bob]

Peoples perceptions of events that they have never bothered to ask people about, but are prepared to slander them on social media.

Yes, I heard that apparently I abandoned you while injured in favour of fixing the sidecar. PMSL, if only it could have been fixed trackside with one hand.
What I was doing was putting my finger over the broken fuel pipe to stop a river of fuel from running under your head.