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Slow your road!

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Slow your road! All good things must come to an end; like roads for example. So to improve my bikes ability to avoid hedge diving I picked up some front braided lines. These are in improvement over the OEM hoses as they are stronger, so less prone to bulge under heavy braking. They are also lighter which helps with unsprung weight (something that I am really not bothered  about on this bike). As the old hoses were, well, old. The replacement hoses were doubly needed to bring back a more responsive front brake. As it so happened a helpful chap decided to write his VFR off and chose to break it so I was able to get this Goodrich aluminium braided front hose set for only £17, well it would be rude not to with a full set tipping the scales at £249. On a slight side note, if I were to go new I'd get some Wezmoto hoses . I got some for my NSR250 and they tuned out to be pretty high quality. As you hopefully already know. The VFR800 FI doesn't have simple, separate front and