Just got visions of you two sitting on your bikes in the garage, playing with the handbrake levers!

Data wrote:Just got visions of you two sitting on your bikes in the garage, playing with the handbrake levers!

You know me so well

Data wrote:Just got visions of you two sitting on your bikes in the garage, playing with the handbrake levers!

Only when it's raining outside...

Thankyou all for your helpful replies and banter. I shall check out the hand brake caliper lever and try pushing that as I release the brake. If it is that I shall strip it and grease it. I love my Silverwing, it really does everything it says on the tin. Comfortable, a excellent touring machine, even room for the kitchen sink, excellent mpg and pretty good performance too, what more could you really want.

Thanks again Scootaboy.

PS I will report back when I have had a look at it.

Hi as promised I would post when I got to the bottom of my Parking brake not releasing properly.
First of all I removed the rear parking brake caliper, stripped it, cleaned all the parts and re-greased where necessary and re-built. I then re-fitted it and correctly adjusted it up, but unfortunately it still would not release correctly, I still had to play the ratchet game, still no worries it certainly didn't hurt to service the caliper, a good job done in my eyes. I have a cable oiler so I managed to get some WD into it, although it wasn't tight at all.

This afternoon I took the right hand pocket out and you can see the mechanism in there but not really get to it. I gave it a good squirt of WD, I slackened off the adjustment so I had full movement of the lever and worked and kept giving it some WD and it has cured it.

So thanks again for your interest and help.

Scootaboy...

Thanks for that follow up Scootaboy, it's always nice to know how things turned out.
So it was the ratchet a bit gummed up after all - well, you live and learn. Useful bit of information too - a little squirt of WD40 every now and again should prevent it happening. Next time I'm in the garage I'll do just that.
Paul