Rear caliper torsion bar mod

[crushedlizard]

Do many of you remove the Torsion bar for the rear caliper? And if so, how have you stabilised the mounting bracket?

It's a real pain in the #%$ trying to manoeuvre my paddock stand under it so I want it gone.

Cheers

[THE FLUTE]

I changed rear caliper and everything on mine Makes life a lot easier

[will#224]

I looked at the caliper bracket of a zx7r, the bracket is bolted directly to the swingarm, only so much of the pad would touch the disk at the extremes of wheel adjustment but it would solve alot of problems

[extonyg]

ye i only ride on the road but i have the same problem when im working on my bike or just cleaning.would it make a great difference if you just took it off?if not has anyone removed it and still using the original caliper?

[Davw]

ye i only ride on the road but i have the same problem when im working on my bike or just cleaning.would it make a great difference if you just took it off?if not has anyone removed it and still using the original caliper?

It would make a big differnce - the caliper arm effectively "fixes" the caliper and prevents it from rotating when the brakes are applied so removing it is only poss if some other form of fixing is used eg - attaching to swing arm (as in picture). I have seen a mod which uses he origninal caliper and caliper carrier with a small alloy arm bolted to the carrier and picking up an extended bolt inserted through the RHS paddoack stand fixing. Making this work wouldl mean a bit of "home made" engineering with the swingarm off the bike etc etc. Not sure it is worth the hassle

[extonyg]

o right i understand now.ye maybe its not worth the hassle then.thanks for the info