60mph front brake failure 06 Dyna

[banquo]

To be fair, he doesn't claim this is required on the BMW; only on the Harley. A courier comes tomorrow to collect pad, but it goes to Oxford, not Hayes...
Open minded, as always, I will await developments.
I'll send only one of the pads, just in case it gets lost.

[Mike Benis]

Well done, Jake.

You ask:

Originally Posted by banquo

Should a message go out to all forum users to ask for any reported failures? Should a message go in the 'quin?

I'd have thought both were excellent ideas. And maybe a little "newsflash" on the home page linking to this.....

Cheers

Mike

[Battersea]

Hi Jake, would just like to thank you for persevering with this, I doubt if many people would have been aware of this problem and its serious nature without you bringing it to our attention.

Hopefully you will stick with it and I don’t think you should underestimate the gratitude that is out there.

[banquo]

Originally Posted by Old_Bob

You haven't wasted your time, you have brought this to the attention of us and that is appreciated.

Sorry Bob, and others - it was the waste of time with officialdom to which I referred...

[the_monster]

When I changed my front tyre recently I found that the front pad (not harley) had separated from the backing plate, I'll see if I can find out what brand they were. They appeared to have corroded between the friction material and the backing plate.

although the brakes did not fail at an time, there had been a noticeable reduction in performance.

With regard to the comments about checking pads before taking to the road - are the VOSA suggesting that you should take the wheels off the vehicle to check the pads, as there is a practicality problem once you get to 4 wheels and right up to 18 as on an artic.

[Chris L]

Obviously this is still happening...saw it yesterday on a Region 17ers 06 Street Bob...

[Old_Bob]

Some of us won't learn. On my way home from Enfield (attending a funeral of an old work colleague) thrashing down the A21 towards Coasterland and approaching a roundabout at Pembury, grabbed a fistful of front brake (cos I was going too fast innit) and went to help it with a bit of rear when the pedal went to the floor - nuffin there. Scary although the front brake was good enough. When I stopped in a layby a bit further on up the road to have a shufty, sure enough the pad material had gone from the outboard brake and only the backing left. I pumped the pedal a few times and the metal backing then acted on the disc. (the guy from VOSA is right that the metal backing will give you some braking but I think it would soon fcuk the disc up) So I took it fairly steady for the rest of the way home

So it's not good enough just to have a quick look that there is enough meat left on the Pad. In future I will take the pads out and have a closer inspection. If it had been the front pad that went I would have been off road over the roundabout and an RK doesn't make a very good Moto Crosser

[banquo]

.... and in the meantime, no reply from H-DUK. Why am I not surprised by that?
I will send them a chaser, and an update.

Glad you're OK Bob....