Braided lines

[Visitor Q]

Hi all, looking to upgrade my brakes (possibly).

Or at least have them in for when i get bored during the holidays.

Anyways, egay has two goodridge sets on sale, one is double the price of the other.

Cheap
not so cheap

Is there REALLY /that/ much difference in quality and stopping power between them? Also what was this guff i recall about corrosion being accelerated by certain metals with different ionic qualities being adjacent or such? And which metals should i watch out for?
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[iCraig]

Just get yourself a decent pair of brake pads like Carbone Lorraine A3+ Sintered Pads, or EBC HH's. Standard Rubber hoses are perfectly fine aslong as they are not bulging due to age or anything.

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[stinkwheel]

I disagree, rubber hoses are shite. You might not notice a great deal of difference on a bike with twin discs, multi-pot opposing callipers etc but the difference they made to the single 2-pot sliding calliper on my GPZ500 was astounding. Probably the single best thing I ever did to that bike and only cost 15 quid.

Equally replacing the cable on a drum braked bike with car handbrake cable makes a huge difference.
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[Scotsman37]

Oh yes, do get the stainless steel braided ones with the stainless steel fittings and you're better to do reverse bleeding to avoid air bubbles and if you have twin front disks then reverse bleed them at the same time.

You'll definitely notice a difference in them because they can be vicious if bleed properly and the steel braiding helps to prevent expansion of the brake line.

[Black Knight]

I got my hoses from Wez, he's a top bloke and regular poster on GB Bikers. I got the budget ones. TBH Theres not much difference between them. The top ones come in a coloured protective sleeve. The budget one also come in a protective sleeve but its colourless.

Buy em mate, cosmetic benefit alone is worth it!

[craigT19]

i recently had HEL lines fitted to my zx6r front and back....


now the brakes are fecking scary .


but as said above rubber ones are fine, i got braided because my rubber ones were fucked and kawasaki were asking silly money for new ones.
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[Motkram]

Most of the noticable benefit is from fresh brake fluid I would suggest.
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[Danny]

I can recommend Hel brake lines, excellent quality (built to order), customer service and they even come with a lifetime guarantee.

E-mail: stu@TFRracing.com for 25% off.

[cc123]

I've been meaning to get braided lines for my bike for ages now. Heard of the benefits, a few of my mates have got HEL braided lines on there brakes...
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[Danny]

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[jay12329]

Hel have all the prices on their web site. I fitted a set to my Hornet 6 (got discount with the nest) and they are realy good. Bleadign took a while but i only used a simple tube rather than an uber bleading kit.
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[stinkwheel]

On the cable point, I was referring to front brakes in the main. Car handbrake cable is about double the thickness of normal brake cable and so stretches hardly at all. You need to drill out the nipples before soldering and may need to modify the lever mounting to take the ferrules but it certainly made the braking action feel a lot more positive on my old T500. You still need forearms like popeye to get it to do anything but it does at least have a slight slowing effect unlike previously.
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Under no circumstances buy hoses with alloy fittings. They corrode, and the first you may know about that corrosion is when you have no brakes at 100mph.

Personally I prefer rubber hoses, but the GPZ500 might well do well on braided hoses as it seems the ratio of the master cylinder to the caliper is miles out.

Also worth considering putting new seals in the calipers at the same time.

My 1200 Bandit still has the original rubber hoses at 8 years old. And they are still on the setting closest to the handlebars.

All the best

Keith
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