Front wheel lock-up

[motoplast]

Since my last post on this subject, I have been for a ride up to Coffs & back, so I have had a fair bit of time inside my helmet where I think about different things without being hassled. Champs, ask ur mate has he fitted a new/ aftermarket front brake lever prior to his accident. I have witnessed/ repaired broken bikes caused by the wrong brake lever being fitted. An aftermarket or different brand (ie: Kawasaki >Suzuki) brake lever may look identical or close enough to the original and may work fine until the Brakes have been applied several times and the brake fluid has got hot & swelled up. The incorrect Lever won't have enough free play and will cause the brakes to drag, creating more heat and compounding the problem with catastrophic results!. Going on the info' supplied, this is a very logical explanation. Depending on his speed at the time would relate to how much warning he would have felt at the pointy end prior to it going pear shaped.

Cheers,
Tex & Bundy

[fasterfaster]

Tex .............. funny you should say that .............. a friend rang me the other day with a TL and had put a new clutch lever pivot in master cylinder assembly and wanted to know why he was now getting clutch slip ? Turned out it wasn't allowing cylinder piston to return enough to uncover the compensating port in the master and each time he operated lever the clutch progressively stayed on a little more.
Good call.
Cheers

[Champs]

The road was a good open clean flat surface with only a slight curve, so no surface interaction seems to be an influence.

Tex - your brake lever suggestion is definitely one to consider and I will ask the question. His main driver is to understand the "how" cause it is eating him up - haha. I would tell him he should have just been riding a real bike, but he has had so many in riding and racing it wouldn't work on him!!

Thanks all for your thoughts - I will continue to put them to him as thought fodder.