Has anyone adjusted the rear brake position yet ? Mine's set a bit high, so I tend to catch it with my foot, so wanted to adjust the lever 5mm or so lower, but it seems the only way I can do it is by taking off the whole rear set and removing the spring from the plunger as the adjuster seems to be mounted within the spring (bloody italians!), which is going to be a ball ache of a job. I've got very little play between first pressure and brake light on, so just adjusting the adjustable bump stop isn't going to work Anyone found an easier way ?
If you are catching it with your foot it might be worth adjusting your foot position..I.e ball of foot on peg I have never touched the rear by accident and I have flippers for feet!
Yeah, I'd agree with this. I always ride on the balls of my feet anyway but am also in the camp that I'd like to adjust the lever downwards a fair bit so that when I do move my foot and use the brake it's more comfortable. At the minute when I try I feel like I'm having to specifically lift up my foot so I don't jam the rear on way harder than I want to!
Exactly that I ride on the balls of my feet, but the lever is in an unnaturally high position compared to my other bikes, so I'm having to lift my foot past its natural position to hit the brake
The brake pedal is set very high for some reason. You can adjust the pedal easily though. There is a bolt with an alan hex formed in the bottom and a lock nut, which acts as the bump stop - you can get to this easily with a 10mm spanner without removing the whole rearset if you push the pedal down far enough and get the spanner in the gap between the footrest bracket and pedal. You then wind the bolt through from below (using Alen key) which lowers the lever. I lowered mine quite far (2 or 3 threads remaining) If you lower the pedal you may meet to remove the plunger and shorten the rod length to retain some free play in the pedal. Remove the heel plate for better access then remove rod by 1x Cap head bolt on the back of the footrest bracket then loosen 10mm lock nut and wind in or out). As I said , I lowered mine quite a bit so bad to shorten the plunger to its shortest possible length to retain the free play. Just check the brake light still comes on correctly and you have a couple of mm free play in the pedal. It's literally 3 bolts to remove and takes a matter of minutes you don't have to take the whole thing off to access the bump stop bolt or plunger rod
That's a great help. I've delayed doing the adjustment as I thought is was a really big job. I'll give this a go now.
If you get stuck I will post some photos to show what I mean Basically remove heel plate and push lever down so you can get a 10mm spanner between lever and foot rest bracket and loosen nut Wind to desired position and check you still have some free play in the lever before brake applied If not enough free play remove the plunger bolt (back of rearset) and pull out plunger from cylinder. Loosen lock nut and shorten the rod to its shortest setting and put back together. Note to access the plunger bolt you may need tonadjust the lever to its highest position to get an Allen key in there
I'm going to give it a try later it think, hopefully your instructions should make sense when I'm looking at the pedal. [emoji4]
Worked perfectly and I got the pedal about 18mm lower which I imagine will make a fairly massive difference when riding. Thanks for the advice flatstick! [emoji4]
No probs. I had to literally lift my leg up to get to the brake lever before. Now I can just bend my ankle. Don't know why they come set so high from the factory
Yeah, I was exactly the same so I really appreciate the walk through. Just need the rain and miserable weather to go away so that I can test it out!
One thing to bear in mind if you adjust the brake lever is to ensure there is still a bit of freeplay in the lever before it starts to brake as if there isn't you'll suffer brake drag. This is when the oil in the brake system heats up and expands and can't circulate and causes the brake to stick on. It's a gradual onset and not immeaditely noticeable but it can melt your brakes and has even caused fire.
Yeah, I actually backed it off slightly from where I originally had it because there didn't seem to be any play in the lever. I think it should be fine now, I've been pushing it back and forth to see if I'm getting any drag but it seems fine. Just going to keep an eye on it for the first ride, maybe not use the brake and just feel if the calliper has heated up once I pull up.
Just done this tonight. I can confirm it is just a 5 minute job. As has been said above I had to adjust the lever to it's highest position to get an Allen key into the bolt to remove the plunger.
Sorry to revive an old thread but could anyone take a picture to show exactly what needs to be done and how much they have lowered by? Mines so high I'm not happy using it and use the rear a fair bit. Can I adjust enough with just the bump stop and rod nuts or do I need to do the other too (I'm not on this one)? To keep free play do I just adjust it down, tighten up and check and if none move it up a little?
To keep the correct amount of free play you need to remove the plunger and wind in the rod or cut it down a bit as described
It's really easy to do You could lower it a bit by just the adjustment screw but you will lose the free play before you have lowered it by much at all
Thanks I may give it a go to lower a little and then run into Rosso Corse for them to do it properly into what I need I'd hate for sake of a few pounds to brake something or make it dangerous.
I'm back - brake has been adjusted but I still have to lift my foot slightly off the footrest to use it, id rather just slide my foot down to use it like any other normal bike... So now i'm going to take my time and get this right and reserve time weekend to get it done. Using the parts below I assume parts 31 and 28 have been adjusted to get me what I have which really is the free play/switch setup. Using the plunge rod (parts 28 - 30) I can reduce the length to drop the pedal - how is this done as it has no where to reduce it, is it already very high or do you cut it?
