So - the ST went out for a few short rides today (+/- 25 km each).
There is still an odour of fuel from the fuel cap area - perhaps it is coming from the airbox and reporting to that area due to convection!?!
Hopefully parts all arrive soon and I can take a look and make sure everything seems...
The way it feels I would automatically think that it was a disc thickness issue - but the complete lack of feedback in the brake lever is what makes me try and explain it in terms of friction variation.
The only way I could see this being a thickness issue is if the ABS and/or linked braking...
I have a 2013 with around 57K km on the clock.
Ever since I bought it (around a year and a half ago) it has had - it's hard to describe - what feels like warped discs in the front. But I don't really feel any feedback through the brake lever.
Rolling to a stop if feels like the coefficient...
Ok - so as I walked out to my "office" this morning and stopped to sniff my ST on the way by - still has a slight smell of fuel around the fuel cap.
I had opened up my garage last night and aired it out as well as possible... but when I opened the door this morning the smell hit me like a...
It seems to be running fine.
My last bike was an Aprilia Dorsoduro 1200... so it does seem a little sluggish... but it is running as well now as it ever has (bought in late fall 2018 so i only have one summer on it).
Bike has 57K km on it - ~6,000 of those are mine.
I just ordered a set...
So I have googled this - found one thread where an owner described a similar situation - years ago - thread died before anything about a solution.
Went for a ride with my wife today and she commented that she could smell gasoline while riding behind me.
Didn't think much of it - I didn't smell...