Brakes
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Road Captain
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From: Monterey, CA
Brakes
I am starting to get an annoying brake noise (squeal) with 7700 miles on my 2010 UC. This next weekend, I will be pulling her into the garage and giving her a good cleaning and going to check the brakes over. What is the life expectancy of OEM brakes? Anything else I should look for? I have also developed a "shimmy" in the back brakes, I feel it through the brake pedal. I really noticed it while doing some demos during a BRC class recently. As always, thanks in advance.
Cale
Cale
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I changed the OEM pads out at 33K miles. The fronts could have gone longer, but I just changed them all at the same time.
When I had the OEM pads and they would start to make noise, I would take the bike up to 60 MPH and just brake as hard as I could to a stop a couple of times. This seemed to knock the glaze off and quite them down for a couple thousand miles.
When I had the OEM pads and they would start to make noise, I would take the bike up to 60 MPH and just brake as hard as I could to a stop a couple of times. This seemed to knock the glaze off and quite them down for a couple thousand miles.
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