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**charan87** · 12-18-2011, 09:53 AM

Honda_CBF Thanks for the advice mate! using both the brakes now and feels much better and stops quicker too!!

@all i got my rear brakes removed and got it cleaned at the garage!! feels better now but i do not know for how log b4 i face this prob again!! i ll keep you posted!

Thanks to all

**Honda_CBF** · 12-18-2011, 02:07 PM

I advice you go through this too:

Lessons from the track: Performance braking : How to setup and brake effectively - xBhp.com : The Global Indian Biking Community

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/universal-threads/13367-lessons-track-performance-braking-how-setup-brake-effectively.html

The gold mine of all the topics which are frequently discussed..

and avoid post in sms lingo, its prohibited here.
Ride safe.

**eliksir** · 12-18-2011, 05:47 PM

@OP, just clarifying, when you said you do 70-30 did you mean 70% front or 70% rear? :/

**charan87** · 12-18-2011, 11:41 PM

@Honda_CBF
Thanks again mate!
and thank lord, i found xbhp! getting to know so many things about riding! its only been a year since i started riding!
I will be careful about the SMS lingo! Cheers!

Hey @eliksir
i meant 70 rear and 30 front!
but it looks like i have to use the brakes other way round

**eliksir** · 12-19-2011, 12:52 AM

yes. Thats why yamaha have given such a big disc

Change your riding habit once again and let us know

**Honda_CBF** · 12-19-2011, 06:30 AM

No no guys..
I meant 70% front & 30% rear.
Doing 70% rear will cause rear wheel lock.

**prajnyan** · 12-19-2011, 08:28 AM

Originally posted by Honda_CBF View Post

No no guys..
I meant 70% front & 30% rear.
Doing 70% rear will cause rear wheel lock.

+1 ^^
Oh yeah, plz note 70% front also doesn't mean you suddenly press front brakes, in that case front will lock and you will fall.
Just apply rear brake, within 1 second apply front and start to squeez front little more hard. IF YOU FEEL BRAKES ARE GONNA JAM, RELEASE THE LEVER AND AGAIN START APPLYING SLOWLY. That's all!

**RanjithMN** · 12-19-2011, 10:25 AM

The front brake is what will stop your bike.Rear is only secondary.Use your front more often and you will find the diff.

**charan87** · 12-19-2011, 10:39 AM

You guys have no idea how wrong i was in my braking!! i always thought rear brakes as the primary ones and the front ones as the secondary! keeping this in mind i used apply brakes 70(rear)-30(front) and at times i never used to use the discs thinking rear brakes were enough!!
Now i know how it is done!
Will let you guys know how my brakes are doing from now on!
going for a big ride next week! Bangalore-Valparai-Bangalore!!

This should tell me a lot of things about my brakes and bike!

**Karthik Mathur (Orange)** · 12-19-2011, 11:21 AM

The main reason why we Indian still tend to believe that rear brakes are the primary ones is because in the bikes with front and rear drum brakes, rear were more effective.
It is in the last few years that most of Indian bikes have been fitted with Front discs.
Even in bikes with front and rear disc, if u observe, front disc is much more effective than the rear disc because of its size.
And as had been mentioned before, rear discs or drums( when front is disc) are mainly for support rather than actual braking.
In my case i never bothered about reading about braking earlier and learnt the hard way( lucky though) as because of wrong braking, the bike has skidded quite a few times but without any accident.
Btw if u press your rear brake hard( even at 20 kmph ), you will notice that the rear locks.

**rahul9250133815** · 12-22-2011, 10:43 AM

brake

Originally posted by Karthik Mathur (Orange) View Post

The main reason why we Indian still tend to believe that rear brakes are the primary ones is because in the bikes with front and rear drum brakes, rear were more effective.
It is in the last few years that most of Indian bikes have been fitted with Front discs.
Even in bikes with front and rear disc, if u observe, front disc is much more effective than the rear disc because of its size.
And as had been mentioned before, rear discs or drums( when front is disc) are mainly for support rather than actual braking.
In my case i never bothered about reading about braking earlier and learnt the hard way( lucky though) as because of wrong braking, the bike has skidded quite a few times but without any accident.
Btw if u press your rear brake hard( even at 20 kmph ), you will notice that the rear locks.

yes he is right that we indian think the rear breaks are primary once and front breaks are just to support but we should understand that the indian bikes are going through an evolution and so as there brakes, to understand the best way of breaking understand you bike, take it for a ride and put all of your senses on the breaks and clutch

**charan87** · 01-04-2012, 12:05 PM

Hey Guys!!
just back from my bike ride to valparai, actually went till athirapally falls in kerala!! about 1200 km in 4 days!

and to say the least about my brakes i abused them through most of the ride! mainly because i was riding through ghat sections and i had to break really really hard during downhill! and as you guys suggested i used the front ones as primary and back ones as secondary!!!

and now that i am back home after all the riding, the brakes are still doing ok!!

earlier this much distance and braking would have destroyed my brakes!! HAD to go for the new ones!!!

Thanks a lot everyone, whoever posted here gave your suggestions!! it did solve my problem

**charan87** · 01-04-2012, 12:07 PM

and I have to say this about my FZ!! i guess there is no other bike in india in this particular segment that handles like FZ!!! In the ghat section the FZ's handling was unmatched!!! it does cornering like Butter, with great speed too!!! it was fun riding FZ in the roads of Ooty and valparai!!! the more i ride my Fz the more i like it

**J K** · 01-04-2012, 12:42 PM

Congos for you ride completed happily..!

Solo ride? or groups?

**charan87** · 01-04-2012, 02:55 PM

Thank you J!!
Not sure if we can call ourselves a Group, we were only 3 of us in 2 bikes!!

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