Today the dog and I had the garage all to ourselves. I figured it would be the perfect time to finish up all the maintance that I'd planned.
I lined up both of the TW's on milkcrates, opened a classic coke, gave my cattledog a frostypaw (frozen dog treat), and lined up all the tools
needed and parts that arrived and jumped right into it.
A couple weeks ago I replaced both base gaskets, head gaskets, pistons, rings, o-rings, cam chain guide and
oil filter.
Today I was gonna replace brake pads and shoes, sand the brake drums, flush the brake fluid, bleed the brakes and check the valves after
putting 500 break in miles on them both.
Valve adjustments were perfect. Rear brake shoes went in without any issues, clean and oiled the chain while I was at it.
The dog was staring at me so I took a break and tossed her frisbee for a few minutes.
I went back in and pulled the front brake caliper bolt, rotated it up and removed both the old pads.
I opened the new parts and was just smiling to myself at how easy it was to replace front pads on these bikes!
I replaced the the pads, flushed the fluid and bled the brakes.
Then Murphy raised his ugly head....
Now keep in mind I was multi-tasking, doing both bikes side by side.....big mistake!
Somehow I lost concentration and while putting the pads in the second bike, I put the far side (right side) pad in backwards!!!
I've never done anything so stupid in my life....
Except when I took it around the block for a test ride
I gently grabbed the front brake and thought I heard scraping? Thinking it was just the new pad bedding in, dumbass me decided
to help it along and grab the lever a couple times pretty hard
You guessed it, It was metal to metal and destroyed the right side of the rotor!
This lesson cost me $41 dollars for a new rotor (ordered) and a new set of pads!
I guess I'll do the bikes one at a time from now on.
I lined up both of the TW's on milkcrates, opened a classic coke, gave my cattledog a frostypaw (frozen dog treat), and lined up all the tools
needed and parts that arrived and jumped right into it.
A couple weeks ago I replaced both base gaskets, head gaskets, pistons, rings, o-rings, cam chain guide and
oil filter.
Today I was gonna replace brake pads and shoes, sand the brake drums, flush the brake fluid, bleed the brakes and check the valves after
putting 500 break in miles on them both.
Valve adjustments were perfect. Rear brake shoes went in without any issues, clean and oiled the chain while I was at it.
The dog was staring at me so I took a break and tossed her frisbee for a few minutes.
I went back in and pulled the front brake caliper bolt, rotated it up and removed both the old pads.
I opened the new parts and was just smiling to myself at how easy it was to replace front pads on these bikes!
I replaced the the pads, flushed the fluid and bled the brakes.
Then Murphy raised his ugly head....
Now keep in mind I was multi-tasking, doing both bikes side by side.....big mistake!
Somehow I lost concentration and while putting the pads in the second bike, I put the far side (right side) pad in backwards!!!
I've never done anything so stupid in my life....
Except when I took it around the block for a test ride

I gently grabbed the front brake and thought I heard scraping? Thinking it was just the new pad bedding in, dumbass me decided
to help it along and grab the lever a couple times pretty hard

You guessed it, It was metal to metal and destroyed the right side of the rotor!
This lesson cost me $41 dollars for a new rotor (ordered) and a new set of pads!
I guess I'll do the bikes one at a time from now on.