Scooterotica

got one fitted to a series 2. but it 's less effective than the original drum brake. the cable has been adjusted but still the same. are they all like this?

i was always under impression that these conversions were s**t they used to be used on vespas and they were a waste of time then

My semi hydraulic front brake is coming off and is being replaced by a fully hydraulic system as i can't get it to work, the cable stretches and the slave cylinder hits the horn casting on my series 3 and the system wouldn't top it's self up.
my sponsor cezeta has given me a polished master cylinder and i will get Mb to do the slave conversion

I couldn't agree more chaps. They are a bitch to fit and then they work about as well as a cable, at the end of the day. I had mine on my series2 for a few weeks, but i could not take the stress of trying to stop in less than a nautical mile any longer. I have a hydraulic master cylinder on the headset now. Its a little bit ugly, but better than rear-ending a vauxhall viva and hospital food......

I use one on my DL works great. better than the disk or drum
Made my own bracket/plate & sunk the master into the bracket plate so it clears
the horn casing.
The bracket bolts onto the where the horn goes & to the bracket that holds the legsheild above.
Horn bolts into the normal place holding it down.

RBG wrote:I use one on my DL works great. better than the disk or drum
Made my own bracket/plate & sunk the master into the bracket plate so it clears
the horn casing.
The bracket bolts onto the where the horn goes & to the bracket that holds the legsheild above.
Horn bolts into the normal place holding it down.

What conversion do you have? the MB one?

so the problem could be the type/make of slave cylinder used

paulc wrote:so the problem could be the type/make of slave cylinder used

What type do you have?

The one off a typhoon works best, got two fitted to my scoots and both work well i'd say about 90% of a fully hydrolic one. I guess its in your set up that wrong. You must check the bore of the slave piston as if its bigger than 11mm you will get i very sharp brake and under 10 not enought fluid gets pushed each stroke.