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General => Technical | How To => Topic started by: Stig / Major Tom on January 05, 2018, 10:43:34 PM
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At Krogers I found a brand new parking brake for my LIKE200I on sale.
These wide and flexible bands work a treat to compress the rear brake lever while parked - or at times you cannot spare a hand on the brake.
Sea Mist offers these scooter accessories in the fresh veggie isle - decorated with bunches of broccoli.
I put a new one on both scoots.
Stig
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These DO work!
You never see a bunch of broccoli roll away, right?
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I use the blue ones from the asparagus bundles.
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Don't do this if you have a hydraulic rear brake though.
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Why not? Aircraft park brakes from Cessna to Boeing are the regular hydraulic brakes pressrized with either the pedals locked or accumulator pressure. I gotta velcro hose tie on mine.
Karl
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I could be wrong. I read this on another discussion about parking brakes on this forum, and quickly went to unclamp mine.
It could be that I'm just repeating misinformation.
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Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, hypo. I have heard this very same thing all my life, too. I got over it by using the systems in aircraft. There may be a downside somewhere but I have not seen one yet. Now the aviation community uses something else as well called "wheel chocks."
Karl
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Yeah, I'm not squeezing the beejeebers out of it with my bands or hands (hydraulic or cable) - just holding my scoot in place against the curb side street incline while warming the scoot -- and starting the battery liners, finishing with the gauntlets, scarf, zippers, camera, glasses, ear plugs, kleenex, and signing autographs.
The Burgman and the Forza had parking brakes (cable-drum brake within a rear disc brake system)...which I used all the time.....but even the little 50cc LIKE has a lever lock park brake.
This should be standard on all scooters.
Veggies, Taiwanese or Italian.....it's all good stuff.
Sh
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Stig, good point (s). I am listening to the dead silence of responses from manufacturers and national distributors.
Karl