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XS400 SE Front Brake is next to useless!!!


krusty
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I have a single disc setup, using the strange looking pivoting caliper, the one with wedge shaped pads!!!, this is my first experience of this type of caliper and I'm not sure I want to continue using the god awful thing.

It appears a previous owner has rebuilt the caliper with new seals and the master cylinder looks clean enough, I have bled new fluid into the system but the effort required to give even a small amount of braking effect is crazy.

The brake line is still the rubber original but I'm not convinced changing it will give significantly better performance.

Is there a direct bolt on upgrade from a newer machine or have I got it all wrong about this oddball caliper. I have had olde japper-neese bikes before and I know the braking performance is nothing like a modern bike, but it would nice to have something a little stronger.

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