Joined Jan 2008
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Coventry, UK
Mille's running again! Yay, wo0t etc.
Now everything's back on track I can fit the new brake lever that I ordered off Ebay. The original Brembo lever is really corroded. The lever I ordered isn't a Brembo but a pattern replacement.
I take the old lever off and compare the two - so far as I can tell they are identical. So I fit the new one. It's a bit tight going in but nothing untoward. Roll the bike up and down the entry testing the brakes, everything's fine. Great, time for a run.
Get to the end of my road and turn left heading down the hill on which I live. 50 yards on I'm a little disconcerted to find myself doing a rolling stoppy!
I wrestle with the bike and it stops. The front brakes have bound on and I'm stuck in the middle off the road. I can't get the bike to budge an inch! So while the traffic goes around me I fish the tool kit out of the bike (nice tool kit Aprilia! Best I've ever seen on a bike) and remove the new brake lever - it works and I can move the bike again. I rode the Mille back round the block on just the back brake.
The old lever's back on but for the life of me I can't figure out why it happened, they really are nearly identical. Weird. I guess I'll have to buy an official Brembo one at £50.
Now everything's back on track I can fit the new brake lever that I ordered off Ebay. The original Brembo lever is really corroded. The lever I ordered isn't a Brembo but a pattern replacement.
I take the old lever off and compare the two - so far as I can tell they are identical. So I fit the new one. It's a bit tight going in but nothing untoward. Roll the bike up and down the entry testing the brakes, everything's fine. Great, time for a run.
Get to the end of my road and turn left heading down the hill on which I live. 50 yards on I'm a little disconcerted to find myself doing a rolling stoppy!
I wrestle with the bike and it stops. The front brakes have bound on and I'm stuck in the middle off the road. I can't get the bike to budge an inch! So while the traffic goes around me I fish the tool kit out of the bike (nice tool kit Aprilia! Best I've ever seen on a bike) and remove the new brake lever - it works and I can move the bike again. I rode the Mille back round the block on just the back brake.
The old lever's back on but for the life of me I can't figure out why it happened, they really are nearly identical. Weird. I guess I'll have to buy an official Brembo one at £50.
h There's a thread somewhere on here about Ducati sprag clutches fitting RSV's too. Again the Ducati part is alot cheaper.
