Fitting Blue Spots is EEEEASY

dirty trix · Post by **dirty trix** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:39 pm

I've NEVER been a fan of braided lines - unfortunately I have all new braided lines all round. It's something I am worried about with the brake upgrade to be honest. Before I bought the TRX I rode an SV with braided lines and it had absolutely NO brake feel whatsoever.

I love progressive feeling brakes where you squeeze more you know exactly what will happen. Best way to pull huge stoppies too

Quan-Time · Post by **Quan-Time** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:44 am

im gonna agree with martin young here.. I have blue spots (well, polished now

and quality braided hoses that are custom made.. Nice length and correct connector angles at each end.. makes it tidy.. anyway.

After having my wave disks on with fully stock setup, the difference was noticable but not "huge".. but you could feel it was different.. Put on the blue spots.. Much better performance but wasnt as "light" as i like it. Changed to braideds and wow.. it works a treat.. Ive been told by many ppl, and on here, if i want more again, change to R1 levers, but for the moment, im quite happy with how it turned out.

Reason i like "light" braking is coz my hand is screwed.

dirty trix · Post by **dirty trix** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:53 am

Well, home with mine now. Have to get some breakfast and then see how I go with the install. I'll take some photographs along the way to show how easy it is... or a noose hanging from the rafters if it isnt

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:09 am

It's dead easy, especially if a mechanical nong like me can do it successfully. Mine are '03 model R6 with HEL braided lines to a std TRX mc. They work very good but are a touch "wooden". I have an R6 mc in the wings and are going to purchase a set of those beautiful Pazzo levers to go with it.

Bob

dirty trix · Post by **dirty trix** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:01 am

Well, it probably took me an hour. Pics up after a test ride.

Triton · Post by **Triton** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:26 am

Must've been a good long test ride... enjoying the new found power eh?

dirty trix · Post by **dirty trix** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:39 am

It was.

I said something about obeying speed limits. It lasted about 2 houses down the road.....

dirty trix · Post by **dirty trix** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:07 am

Step 1: pick up the phone and ring the wreckers.

Step 2: Do it again and get quoted LESS THAN HALF the price of wrecker no 1.

Step 3:
Score some calipers and take them home.

Step 4:
Bolt the calipers in place. They bolt straight up.

dirty trix · Post by **dirty trix** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:10 am

Step 5:

if you can, get some friends to "help" you bleed the brakes

Step 6:

Dont forget to wash off the brake fluid.

Step 7:

Finished product. Takes all of 7 bolts - 2 per caliper, 1 banjo bolt per caliper and a screw holding the brake fluid cap on.

Took about an hour - most of that bleeding the brakes. Oh, the test rides took longer.....

bobtrx · Post by **bobtrx** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 11:06 pm

-Did you put thread lock on the caliper holding bolts ?

dirty trix · Post by **dirty trix** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:10 am

No. There's still some goo on the bolts from last time but I should get some fresh stuff.

Post by **Max** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:27 am

I never use thread lock on the caliper bolts. Lockwire when racing but never thread lock.

But that being said, I usually "pre-flight" a bike before I ride it.

youngy · Post by **youngy** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:47 am

I always copper-slip mine, never thread lock.

CULater · Post by **CULater** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:55 pm

You've got early model (thundercat) blue spots, later ones (R1/R6 etc.)don't have the brakeline on the outside.
Don't know if there's a difference in brakingpower between the models.

I posted this before, but for anyone who wants to give the calipers a good cleaning/rebuild, look
HERE

dirty trix · Post by **dirty trix** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:19 pm

2001 Thunderace YZF1000 Import ones to be exact.

The R1/R6 ones dont have the balance tube. What impact that makes I have no idea - Im sure it probably means more initial bite from the R ones.

But, I'm sure the YZF1000 ones are more than good enough for a bike with almost half the horsepower anyway. It still wont stoppie though - all the geometry is wrong for that (well at this stage anyway).