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Bought replacement brake & clutch levers in nice shiny black instead of the usual chrome ones.

Fitted them last week and went for a ride today. Doh!! front brakes locked up slowing down approaching a junction, I shit my pants!!!! The previous 10 minutes were fine, the brakes were working fine.

Removed the lever to check the fitment and the calipers released instantly. Re-fitted the lever making sure that everything wasnt too tight or binding, checked the lever travel, everything seemed ok.

The same thing happened twice on the way back home.

I checked the lever against the original and found them identical, does anyone have any idea what went wrong?? I will need to swap them back to original and take it for a run (nervously)

Sounds similar to a prob mentioned in this thread? https://www.ridersite.com/viewtopic.ph ... vers#18618

Did you sit like a prat waiting for your discs to cool down so the wheel would turn for 30mins like I did ?

Or did you realise pushing the lever away from you free's them. In the end I used the standard oem triangle-thingy-bit-with-adjuster-on with the cheap shit chinese lever on the end as a compromise.