1200 DVT Front And Rear Brakes Question.

Since yours is a DVT then the rear brake should be pretty good (and linked to the front brake through the ABS system). It was the pre-DVT 2010-14 Multi which had a rather poor rear brake.

 

You don't say if your bike is an 1200S or the 1200 standard, as they have different disk/calipers.

There was a previous thread on 1200S replacement pads.

I've now done over 10,000 miles and I'm still on the original front pads, but I did carry the replacement set on my last tour - just in case.

Regarding the replacement rear pads, I went for the sintered 83 option and I the rear brake feels a lot more effective. Saying that, the rear brake was pretty good with the OEM pads compared with my pre-DVT Multistradas.

 

I agree with gregsf848 comments about the rear brake, it is poor on my s model DVT and when I complained to the dealer about I was told their all like that sir ?

 

Standard pads as per OEM. Like I said, the rear brake should be pretty good - if it isn't, there must be something wrong with it.

 

I had just over 3k miles out the front pads, replaced by dealer at service time with, and my rear brake works as well as any Ducati rear on any Ducati I have had. That doesn't say a lot, but it is better than the pre DVT model I had

 

I agree there bradders they are slightly better than my twinspark, but their still shit. I've got a better back brake on my 61 Vello than I've got on my DVT

 

DVT rear brake is much better than the older bike , is it any cop ?
No not really but its good enough , even though there is a lot or travel it still stops you...
not really sure why they are so crap , I use my front for the majority of my stopping anyhow

 

I believe the rear brake is just a Ducati thing. You press on it and it feels like nothing happens until it eventually just locks up. So the fact that it locks up relatively easily tells me it's working fine it's just that the chassis doesn't squat or react in anyway to give you the impression that it's doing anything. There is enough bite in the caliper but you can't modulate brake pressure sufficiently at the point right between where the rear locks and doesn't lock. My 916SPS was exactly the same.

I've owned heavier bikes where the rear has been much better, so I'd suggest that it's an issue more related to the diameter of the rear disc being improperly matched to the weight of the bike. I don't think changing pads to a different compound will make much difference. The brakes are working and are doing 'something' but it's probably imperceptible to most of us.

 

I think you'd have to stand on my rear brake for it to lock and that's open to debate whether it would. Trying to come to a stop just using my rear brake would be a dangerous undertaking.

 

Mine will at low ish speed, and the last multi before it too, depending on ABS setting and speed (someone posted ABS doesn't work below something like 5mph)

 

To be honest, doing that is dangerous on any bike and it's not representative of normal braking at all. If they found you doing that on your test you'd fail.

I'm not defending the rear brake and I know what you're trying to say, but lets stay constructive.

 

I'm not sure the exact figure but that is correct, or you'd never come to a stop at all. It has to turn off at some point.

 

I'm sorry Rainman, but I grew up on British bikes, and passed my test on one, and I can assure you the majority of them had no or very little retardation from the misnamed front "BRAKE"
All major braking came from the rear brake.

 

Yeah but today is not 1919 and you're not riding a "Model A". I double-dare you to retake your test and employ the same riding technique, and don't tell me you're still like that today. :tearsofjoy:

 

CBT - 75/25 on the brakes isn't it?

 

It's quite subjective but something in that ballpark - but my point is that no one uses the rear brake as their primary means of coming to a stop, so to suggest that the crappy Ducati rear brake is dangerous is frankly ridiculous. I'm not defending the crappy rear brake, because it's definitely crappy, but lets get real for a moment.

Some folk don't use the rear at all, a la Carl Fogarty, but then he was riding a Ducati so probably makes that point about crappy Ducati rear brakes quite nicely. Maybe he would have used it if he thought it made a difference, maybe not, who knows?

 

Rainman, I can honestly say that the bike (C15) I tried my test on didn't have wooden block pads
I did do a bit of racing for a couple of years, not in the same ability or class as our Mr Fogarty I might add, but I also very rarely used the rear brake. I discovered under heavy braking the back wheel would sometimes be in the air, so if I used the rear brake under those conditions, when the back wheel made contact with the tarmac again it would slide all over the place, so I quickly learned not to use the back brake! but I do not ride like that on the road.
I also for a few years competed in enduro's where I found out early on that grabbing a handful of front brake would have me down in short notice, so quickly learned to rely on the back brake, once again I do not ride like that on the road.
I don't recal saying I only use the rear brake on my DVT so there fore I want one that works, but I am saying that for an expensive bike I expect a back brake that bloody does, brake that is, not one that's so shit I can't see the point of it having ABS
p.s. A mate of mine was a bike examiner and from what he tells me I don't think I'll resist my bike test