Sharky_82 Posted May 3, 2009 Share Posted May 3, 2009 Hi guys a newbie to R1's and the site here, What a great site! still feeling my way around at the moment. 2 weeks ago I bought an '06 R1 Raven, I rode the gixer 1000, ZX10 and Blade but the R1 had it all by miles class, handling, style, power, looks I could go on... After a long ride back to London from Devon I noticed that my front brake's sounded different whilst manouvering the bike around my yard, a light knocking sound was coming front the front brake calipers under light braking eventually I found that the brake pads themselves were moving (only a few millimetres) within both of the calipers causing them to knock, all the pins etc... are in place and nothing appears to be wrong and everything still works, but my bike did'nt make the sound before I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there was anyway of tightening them to stop the knocking or if it was normal?? Cheers guys for any help that can be offered Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R1 Ned Posted May 4, 2009 Share Posted May 4, 2009 Hi guys a newbie to R1's and the site here, What a great site! still feeling my way around at the moment. 2 weeks ago I bought an '06 R1 Raven, I rode the gixer 1000, ZX10 and Blade but the R1 had it all by miles class, handling, style, power, looks I could go on... After a long ride back to London from Devon I noticed that my front brake's sounded different whilst manouvering the bike around my yard, a light knocking sound was coming front the front brake calipers under light braking eventually I found that the brake pads themselves were moving (only a few millimetres) within both of the calipers causing them to knock, all the pins etc... are in place and nothing appears to be wrong and everything still works, but my bike did'nt make the sound before I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there was anyway of tightening them to stop the knocking or if it was normal?? Cheers guys for any help that can be offered Pete i had a similar problem with my kawasaki zxr, it was one of the pots in my caliper, which had siezed, causing a slight knocking sound, i stripped it cleaned it and it sorted it, this was around 6 months ago. i now own a 1999 R1, and enjoying the site too, hope i helped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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