The application I'm focused on is motorcycles. My gut guess would be that the type of hose makes more difference on a motorcycle because it composes the bulk of if not 100% of the plumbing. Contrast that to a car, where the flexible portion of plumbing is a small percentage.
That said, you can...
Fair enough.
Do you think, then, that any change in the feel of a brake system caused by a change to the flexible hoses is specifically and only because of differences in the expansion characteristics of those hoses?
Chris
So, to parse out a portion of one of my above posts:
Is the ideal design for brake plumbing 100% solid tubing?
Since we need to accommodate suspension travel and steering movement, the next best thing is using hose with as little expansion as possible?
Once we have that in place, have we done...
The restrictor would be used to modify the feel of the pedal. I wouldn't want to say make it hard to move the pedal, but rather to change the way the pedal feels via changing the size of the restriction.
Chris
Thanks Rod,
Would you agree that the ideal design for brake plumbing would be 100% solid tubing, but since we need to accommodate suspension travel and steering movement, the next best thing is a hose with as little expansion as possible?
Regarding old to new vs rubber to braided, what if both...
Hi all,
First post. My question is regarding an attempt to discover why changes to brake system plumbing change the way the brakes "feel" to the vehicle operator.
More specifically, I'm concerned only about changes to the flexible hoses in terms of material and/or internal diameter. An example...
