I have a 2014 Raider....Your Raider service videos are incredibly invaluable to me!!! Thank you so much for all that you share!!! You have helped save me in so many ways!!! I'm ordering my pads, and tires from you guys!!!

Always a good day when Jonh Loads a new video

Never hurts to check the fluid before retracting the piston for just the reason you mention. If someone with worn pads thinks their fluid is low and tops it off, you can make a real mess compressing that piston and dripping brake fluid on paint.

Beauty of a bike.

Great video, please do more Raider videos!

@PartzillaParts

10 ай бұрын

Front pads coming next, with more on the way.

@RossMalagarie

10 ай бұрын

@@PartzillaParts thanks for the content I love my 2012 Raider

My wear limit comfort depends on the rate of wear. The front brakes on my 2007 K1200LT are still original at 100,000 miles and they still have about 5mm of pad material left. I am not sure how thick there were new, but I don’t think these are wearing more than 0.3 mm per 10,000 miles. I will run these down to 1 mm without thinking twice. The rear pads on the other hand wear much faster. I am on my third set and they are about half worn out. They probably wear 2 mm per 10,000 miles. I tend to replace them around the 2 mm point simply to ensure I don’t run out of pad in the middle of a tour. The main difference in wear is that the front pads are full sintered pads and the rear are either organic (OEM) or semi-sintered (current EBC pads) and wear much faster. I use both brakes pretty much all the time, but they are linked so even if I apply one end, the other gets activated to at least some degree. I still can’t believe the original pads are only 50% or so worn at 100K miles, but them’s the facts.

@MyINNOVAMotorcycling

10 ай бұрын

Dir sir, There is nothing here to believe, or not to believe. Assuming your report these are the facts, then one of two possibilities is happening: 1. Either you are not stopping correctly, because with proper use of the front brake it should wear more. This may be important in emergency braking, because the rear brake cannot provide more than 30% of the power brake, and the front gives at least 80%...So maybe you check your braking habits with a professional riding instructor. 2. It is possible that your reinforced pads are only 50% worn, but the disc itself is already out of specification, check the thickness of the disc. I may be wrong, I share what makes sense to me.

@LTVoyager

10 ай бұрын

@@MyINNOVAMotorcycling You are right in that you are wrong. 😁. I was a certified Total Control riding instructor and my braking skills are quite good. I have been riding for 54 years and my riding skills are quite good. I suspect the reason for the minimal front pad wear is due to several factors, listed here in the order of most likely probability of contribution: 1. I live in a rural area so most of my riding is on the highway and not in city traffic. I need to use my brakes much less than many other riders. 2. I use good riding strategy and rarely have to brake hard. Most of my emergency stops are for deer. I don’t follow other vehicles closely and I slow to known stops gradually downshifting as I slow. I generally am below 20 MPH before I need to apply brakes. 3. The front brakes on the LT are massive and require very little effort to slow the bike.

@MyINNOVAMotorcycling

10 ай бұрын

@@LTVoyager So you have a very, very relaxed riding style. But why do you prefer to stop the whole big mass mainly with the rear brake? Especially in view of the fact that the braking efficiency of the rear brake does not exceed 30%. The 1:3 ratio should be reversed, isn't it. The situation will be such that the rear is hardly used, or used mainly when standing still. Why do you prefer to use the rear more? Obviously, the important thing is to drive slowly and safely. This is the most important, I ask for curiosity.

@LTVoyager

10 ай бұрын

@@MyINNOVAMotorcycling You keep making unwarranted assumptions. My riding style isn’t that relaxed, I simply plan ahead for my stops when able. It is crazy to make every stop sign and light an emergency braking event as some riders do. You are incorrect about the contribution of the rear brake. When initially applied, the rear brake on most motorcycles, some sport bikes may be the exception, provides more braking than the front. When my LT is fully loaded and riding two-up, I have close to 70% of the weight on the rear tire and thus it provides 70% of the brake force at initial brake application. As the weight transfers as deceleration increases, this rapidly shifts from rear to front and probably ends up with 70-80% on the front tire and 20-30% on the rear. Sport bikes can get 100% on the front wheel, but my LT won’t do a stoppie. In a planned stop with 0.2 G or less of deceleration, I probably never exceed 50% of braking on the front wheel. I would have to do the calculations to be sure, but I suspect my guess is close on this. Lastly, I don’t use the rear brake more. I use both brakes equally almost all of the time. My BMW computer tracks how many times the brakes are used and how often the ABS is activated. My brake use is almost exactly the same on front as on the rear. I explained in my earlier post why I believe the front brakes are wearing so slowly on my LT. The one variable I can’t account for is the brake system algorithm itself. My LT has servo assisted integrated brakes and it proportions braking power front to rear electronically. To the best of my knowledge, BMW has never made the algorithm public. Those of us who own LTs know that activating either just the front lever or just the rear brake pedal will activate both front and rear brakes, but as to what proportion, we have no way to know.

@MyINNOVAMotorcycling

10 ай бұрын

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