RSV Rear lockup solved!!!

[RDawson]

Guaranteed my rear brakes won’t lock up. I changed the oil recently and left the drain pan in front of my bike in the shop, a few days later some circling wind decided to relocate my shop roof into the woods out back. Two days of downpours followed raining into the shop overflowing the drain pan into a nice big slick on my floor, the falling rain splattered the oil all over the bike including I guess the rotors. Without really thinking about it I took it for a test run the next week, I quickly realized at the end of the driveway no matter how hard I stomped the pedal there was absolutely no chance of lockup. I can’t really recommend this design of antilock brakes though as the stopping distance is exponentially increased. 🤬🤬🤬

Edited April 21 by RDawson

[RDawson]

Good news the metal for the new roof gets here tomorrow. Hopefully next week it won’t rain in my shop anymore. Bad news the wife’s Jeep managed to cushion  a tree limb from hitting the ground too hard in the same storm, gotta get it to the body shop. 

[N3FOL]

Sorry to hear about all that damage.  Glad nobody got hurt.

[RDawson]

I hired an Amish crew to redo the shop roof. They got here Tuesday morning at 7:00 by horse and buggy  and the four of them tore off the 1/2 of the old roof still there, installed new lathing, repaired a damaged truss, and had the new 2000 foot roof on by 1:30. They had a great system and worked together like a well oiled RSV. 
The best part of my day was they saw my Bluetooth speaker in my boat and used a phone I didn’t know they had and were jamming to some 80’s country. I really got tickled to hear Amish men singing to the Oak Ridge Boys. Elvira Oohm poppa oohm poppa mow mow. 

Edited May 1 by RDawson

[N3FOL]

The Amish do quality work.  

[Marcarl]

  On 5/1/2025 at 7:22 PM, RDawson said:

I hired an Amish crew to redo the shop roof. They got here Tuesday morning at 7:00 by horse and buggy  and the four of them tore off the 1/2 of the old roof still there, installed new lathing, repaired a damaged truss, and had the new 2000 foot roof on by 1:30. They had a great system and worked together like a well oiled RSV. 
The best part of my day was they saw my Bluetooth speaker in my boat and used a phone I didn’t know they had and were jamming to some 80’s country. I really got tickled to hear Amish men singing to the Oak Ridge Boys. Elvira Oohm poppa oohm poppa mow mow. 

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