Today on Facebook...Brake issue

[TerryS]

Thought you'd enjoy seeing how to REALLY mess up the rear calliper...the OP had this question: "Ok, debate time…. ***** has happened to my rear caliper??" I suggested rodent damage.

 

[Mellow]

Yeah well, helps to actually look at your bike now and then... lol it's obviously a 5 way Tee failure.... rodent? pfft..

 

[Obo]

broken = breaks = brakes

 

[Sadlsor]

Rats + brakes = brats.
(Had to be rats, cuz mice aren't strong enough to bend brake pads.)

 

[sirbike]

Aluminum melts at 1221 degrees.
There would be heat dissipation by the time it reached the brake line but still amazing that the line held together long enough to allow that kind of damage.

Definitely rodent damage.
See, it’s like this, the rodent’s toilet room was on top of the caliper. Urine trickled down and spread up on the brake cylinder causing it to seize…

 

[Mellow]

He was obviously riding next to another ST running Darkside and that bike, being on fire, affected this bikes brake caliper.

 

[Jerseyst]

Probably not using Rotella....

 

[pops13]

Perhaps rodents of unusual size?

 

[Oldbikefixr]

Aluminum melts at 1221 degrees.
There would be heat dissipation by the time it reached the brake line but still amazing that the line held together long enough to allow that kind of damage.

Definitely rodent damage.
See, it’s like this, the rodent’s toilet room was on top of the caliper. Urine trickled down and spread up on the brake cylinder causing it to seize…

I was going to suggest someone installed a styrofoam display caliper by mistake, but overtemp is likely.

 

[ReSTored]

Hard to believe anyone could be riding a bike with brakes in that condition.

Maybe it's the "ride hard and check the bike over every 10 years" crowd.

Can you imagine what the rest of the bike looks like.

 

[ST1100Y]

... the cause might be as banal as a sloppy seating position, resting his right foot on the pedal ...
Saw the FB posting this morning, Shamane Headshaykn' seriously striking, but kept out of the FB debate ... just useless...

 

[Al st1100]

Used molly grease where molly paste should have been used. Like Igofar states some observation skills are needed or some common sence.

 

[Gus1300]

wow! I need to get a good/better look at my brakes so I'm not part of THAT club!

 

[SupraSabre]

So, when was the last time the brakes has been even LOOKed at? Looks like abuse (not paying attention) to me!

 

[Igofar]

Sadly the his happens more often than you’d like think.

 

[acedantinne]

It hurts to look at those Pictures of left over brake pieces. Come on now. U have to see, hear some thing.

 

[ReSTored]

Sadly the his happens more often than you’d like think.

Unbelievable, you'd think that at some point the rear end would lock up solid when the brakes were applied and dump the rider.

 

[sirbike]

And smell something.