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Originally Posted by
Pleiades
I never changed my fluid as the brakes are fine at the moment. .
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Just a thought, but when do you want to find out your brakes are not fine ?
Brake fluid is hygroscopic, it absorbs water/moisture, then as the brake fluid heats up it (water) turns to a gas and becomes compressable - then you have no brakes... It depends how well you ride as to how dangerous this is.
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Originally Posted by
Ilkleyal
I can't work out why they have picked on this as a service replacement item,
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It's a safety item, I'd rather spend a few quid replacing something that 'might' go wrong, than waiting till it does (which is usually under load/stress, therefore just at the time you need it most?). I guess Yamaha are just protecting themselves from the lawyers, the MTBF is probably something like 4 or 5 years average use.