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brake lines

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#918544 ·published 2008-02-26 04:48 UTC
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Regarding the stainless steel brake lines: if you are willing to be a guinea pig, I can have a set made for you, free of charge, but it's going to be a 2-step process:

1) I'll make a "trial set" that has adjustable ends on them, that you will fit onto your bike (but only after you install the original handlebars and master cylinder!). This trial set has adjustable end fittings that allows the end fittings to be rotated and bent to fit your bike. This assumes that everything else on the front end......forks, trees, wheels, etc.----is 100% stock.

2) You'll send this trial set back to me, and then we'll make a final set of stainless lines off of this pattern.

The reason for going through this process is that stainless lines have basically "zero" torsional twisting ability, and therefore they have to be 100% precise in their end fitting orientation. Working off original rubber lines, we've been able to come "very close" to the correct alignments, but not perfect. To get them perfect, we have to get the on-bike alignements verified on a stock bike. Making the dummy "trial set", and then fitting and aligning them onto a stock bike, and then making a real set from those trial lines, is the only way to accomplish this.

However, it requires a bit of back-and-forth effort on your part, and will take a couple of weeks at a minimum. If you can invest that mount of time and effort, then I'll be glad to provide you with a free set of stainless lines that will fit perfectly. Let me know!