Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

Oh that typical Rossi like leg dangling multiplied by 2?[emoji23] [emoji23]

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But, Flintstones style!

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Obviously. It's an underrated art.

That's for level 1 experts.

Regards.

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Have you ever used any other kind of brake pads? My front brake seems to be a bit spongy. I got them checked at the SVC they said it works just fine.. Also when I use the front brake, the front seems to move to the right. This happens only under hard braking.
Also about the front brakes.. It just doesn't seem to have the bite! Have you experienced this?

Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

Yes either due to air in the lines or the piston spring has lost its tension. Could be scoring in the MC bore too.

I faced all of this when I bust the 220 steel lines and upon reinstalling stock lines found the brakes to be horribly spongy.
Found a leak from the MC piston too. Opened up the MC piston and found the O rings were shot because of a lack of respect towards the bike meted out by some one who was assigned the custody when I shifted to Bangalore.
The oil was mixed with water and the o rings had swollen up. Also the spring was rusted and squishy. Luckily the bore was fine. Changed the piston assembly and bike is normal now.

No I don't experiment with brake pads especially cheap aftermarket ones. So never used anything apart from stock.
CHEERS

Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

Anyone who has recently changed the clutch plates tell now how much do they cost?

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Check this out...

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In Delhi it costs around 685/- INR.

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Thank you for the info

Trying new chain lube

/*Posting here from R15S forum to gain some more visibility*/

Hi good folks,

Tried something new today.

As I've mentioned on occasions here, I've been using Yamaha's gear oil as a chain lube for my R15S's 500-700 KMs chain lubing which I do myself. WD40/Zorrik remains the cleaning agent. So far so very good, as the gear oil really helped keeping the chain well lubed. However, today I realized that the rear rim always gets coated in a layer of greasy substance with so much dust, which clearly is the gear oil splashes from the chain. That made me thinking while I was having the routine bike wash. The rear rim always gets dusty even though I clean both rims with my chain cleaning schedule.

Looks like it was time to try a new lubing agent. I'm not a fan of water based lubes e.g. the Yamalube spray which they use in SVC, but that's always one option albeit an expensive one. So in my search I noticed this thing in the neighborhood shop - Arrowchem Adhesive lube spray.



After cleaning the chain, I proceeded to spray this thing, at that moment I realized its a sticky gel/gum like lube which gets sprayed in the form of foam though.(I should've known from the word - Adhesive, duh!). Now, I yelled f@ck it and proceeded to lube the complete chain with this thing, which ended in the chain becoming shiny and sticky, looked well lubed though by a touch. It says on the bottle that it prevents rust, is water and salt proof.

My question is - did anyone try it or something like it so far and what has been their experience with the adhesive type lubes?

(I'll be ditching the gear oil lubing for a while so my option is this or the water based lubes)

Cheers.

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Gear oil is the best you can get however if you think it will hamper the cosmetic feel then lube is fine but don't expect anything extraordinary.

I use auto rickshaw gear oil (not the bike gear oil) but my bike looks like garbage.
I am fine because my chain is 70k plus kms.
Your call if you want performance then gear oil is the best bet else you have to compromise.
All lubes say big stuff. Once you give them the stick they show their shortcomings.
CHEERS

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Thanks buddy for pitching in. Well I have always liked gear oil for chain lubing but as the bike is new, the rear rim becomes an eyesore.

On the other hand, the 3rd day update is- I don't like this adhesive lube to be honest. The bike feels a little rough to push than it was when it was lubed with gear oil, so probably I'll be reverting to gear oil once I'm done with this bottle. Probably I didn't lube the chain properly using it.

Regards.

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This is how it looks.
If there was a competition for the most dirty R15 I would win it hands down. Lol[emoji23] [emoji23]

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Damn that's how a 70K KM chain/bike looks.

Regards.

Re: Yamaha YZF-R15 version 2.0

Hi, I am back. Block piston issue will be fixed by end of the month. Waiting for it to arrive. I've seem to encountered another problem according to me. Whenever, I shift gears, first three gears, I feel a comfortable thud at the chain during gear shift. But from 4th gear, I do not get this feedback anymore, they go missing and I end up with a delayed power response on twisting the throttle. Chain slack has been checked and adjsuted but the issue is still present. Would this problem be related in anyway to earlier block piston one? I was used to the confident gear thud at chain earlier.