Changing Kawasaki Z900RS Brake Pads Front and Rear

[@TheGorillaBiker]

If you wait until the end of the video and click the top right corner video link things I have full brake rebuild videos linked up there for anyone interested, if you also search the channel for brake line replacement videos I have those previously which includes full bleeding etc. if you like to see any videos on here please do let me know in the comments. Sadly I currently do not have a way to do first ride reviews, no bikes to do them on right now :)

[@MonkeyButtRides]

Hopefully you will find another dealer to work with and do those first ride reviews.

[@TheGorillaBiker]

Hopefully! But they seem more closed off to the idea of it here.

[@callandy100]

Happy New Year to you and your good lady/camera person (good, steady camera work there, not sure the "action" command got a particularly professional response though 😅). Hope the back prob clears soonest (I can empathise, unfortunately 😮). I'm sure any vid on the "monster bike" will be well received. Cheers, Andy.

[@TheGorillaBiker]

Hahaha I am a consummate professional I have no idea what you're talking about :P It's not bad right now thankfully, rugby messed me up years ago so I still get reminders every now and again! I hope yours is also manageable! Hopefully so :) Hope you have a good 2024 amigo :)

[@byDanimal]

Toaster is the best camera person! Especially with those meaty Gorilla hands of yours. Great job Toaster! I want to see everything on the Valkryie. Especially any rebuilds.

[@TheGorillaBiker]

She is to be fair!! Always very happy when she can help out :) Ah it just saves so so much time too not having to move the camera around and all :) Done. I shall make them :)

[@4boyzzzz]

You make this look much easier i know when i do this im gonna be dying 😅

[@TheGorillaBiker]

Nah it's actually grand :) You'll fly it and I'm available by phone to you any time :P

[@BigBert]

Happy New Year mate. Yep i would watch a brake rebuild also. Great job Toaster 👏🎬

[@TheGorillaBiker]

And to you and yours bud, hope 2024 is good to you :) I shall have to do it so :) She's a great camera human!

[@RoadsOfOz]

Happy new year mate. I would watch a brake rebuild video. Hope your back is getting better.

[@TheGorillaBiker]

Thanks amigo! Hope you have a good 2024 :) I shall make it then! It's getting there, still not 100%

[@stephencartwright5046]

Good to see the camera team back in action! So easy, so clean when a bike is new. Another excellent video. Why are there so many variations on a theme of how to make a brake calliper? Above all why so many silly little anti-chatter springs and clips? There always seems to be something terribly Heath-Robinson about the business end of callipers, as if the engineering and tolerances aren't quite right . . . . 👍

[@TheGorillaBiker]

Have to cajole her when it's cold in the garage yano :P My back was a great excuse :D Also factual and getting up and down off the floor wasn't the easiest :D Oh man that was the easiest ever I couldn't get over how clean everything is :D Thanks :) That I have no idea on, I'm all about having competition from a cost point but WHY do they mix up brakes so often for road bikes, no one uses them even close to what they can do anyway! Haha yeah tolerances can be interesting at times eh :D

[@markfortin8286]

Happy New Year! I'd watch a brake rebuild video on the Valkyrie. I hope your back feels better, that's never an enjoyable injury. P.S.- Foot fetish people disgust me. Why can't they just obsess over T&A like normal people? 🤣

[@TheGorillaBiker]

And to you bud :) I'll be making them so :) It's getting there now, not 100% but nearly there thankfully. Hahaha man feet are not attractive things I don't get it at all 😂

[@Viper6-MotoVlogger]

Happy new year mate.

[@TheGorillaBiker]

To you too bud, hope it's a good one for ya!

[@Viper6-MotoVlogger]

@@TheGorillaBiker thanks

[@MrMoto948]

Z900 pads on a z900rs. Well done. You didn't notice? Different calliper. I think you need to get the shop to do it properly.

[@TheGorillaBiker]

If they are incorrect it's the shop that supplied them to me when I gave them my make and model 😂😂 So no, I absolutely won't give my bike to a shop. And they've ran absolutely fine on road and 2 track days since, so the dimension difference is probably negligible

[@TheGorillaBiker]

You are correct btw, they did give me the wrong pads, however the difference is less than than 2mm in length and .5mm in thickness total, so negligible.

[@eoindwan6005]

Great video, just wondering about the advantages of using silicone based anti seize over copper based?

[@TheGorillaBiker]

Thanks! Technically no advantages I'm aware of, there is just a theory, not one I fully believe as I've never had an issue personally, that copper based MAY interfere with some ABS systems triggering correctly. So I used the silicone based as a more of a "better safe than sorry". I still use copper based on my older bikes out of habit. It's really a case of 6 of one or half a dozen of another imo, both work fine for the anti seize bits :)

[@hachewie]

Ahhhh you live.

[@TheGorillaBiker]

Just about, between work and stuff the last few weeks have not been relaxing :D

[@hachewie]

Sorry to hear you hurt your back. Was it a sexual accident? I will probably never rebuild brakes, so personally I will watch but only because it's you. Happy New Year.

[@TheGorillaBiker]

It was not, like I said it wasn't exciting sadly :D Basically just an old injury that tried to ruin my life for no reason over Christmas. And to you and the family too amigo :)