<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Interesting topic.</div><div class="">I just had my rear drums turned, and I was surprised at how little wear there was on the shoes.</div><div class="">I guess the engineers at BMC put in the smaller cylinders as a kind of default brake bias control.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stephen, BJ8<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 27, 2019, at 12:29 PM, Michael Salter <<a href="mailto:michaelsalter@gmail.com" class="">michaelsalter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: small;">Have to agree with Kees on this one.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: small;">We have a brake bias control on AHX12 and I can certainly attest to the fact that when the conditions change to "wet" removing a lot of rear braking is absolutely essential to prevent the car from swapping ends.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: small;">As most road cars don't have adjustable brake bias I would be very careful in trying to increase the rear braking.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: small;">When braking into a corner the last thing you want is the rear end coming around, particularly in the wet.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: "comic sans ms", sans-serif; font-size: small;">M<br class=""></div></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="gmail_quote" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:09 PM Kees Oudesluijs <<a href="mailto:coudesluijs@chello.nl" class="">coudesluijs@chello.nl</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Whatch out driving in the rain as the rear brakes will lock the rear<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">wheels much quicker than with the smaller pistons.Rear brakes are only<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">providing a small portion of the total brake force.<br class=""><br class="">Kees Oudesluijs<br class=""><br class="">Op 27-8-2019 om 18:04 schreef Chris Dimmock:<br class="">> Hi Men<br class="">> Has anyone else ever changed their rear wheel cylinders from 3/4 inch to 7/8 inch?<br class="">> I just did. Sick of the rear brakes doing nothing. 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