Parking Brake System: Adjustments

Parking Brake:

Check free travel of the parking brake lever

The parking brake is fitted with asbestos-free brake linings. The parking brake must never be adjusted in such a way that the lining has to "grind itself free" in operation.

If the brakes do not show any effect when the parking brake lever is pulled up by more than 4 notches using medium force, the parking brake must be readjusted.


Adjusting the parking brake:

1. Remove rear wheels.

2. Release parking brake lever and push back disc brake pads until the brake disc rotates freely.

3. Undo the adjusting nuts on the turnbuckle (arrow) until the cables are slack.


Note

Remove the cassette box behind the parking brake lever to gain access to the turnbuckle. The fastening screw is located below the rubber insert.

4. Insert a screwdriver across the hole in the brake disc to reset the adjuster until the wheel is locked. Then undo the adjuster again until the wheel can be rotated freely.
Now undo by a further two notches.

5. Pull up parking brake lever by two notches and turn adjusting nut on the turnbuckle until both wheels can just barely be rotated by hand.

6. Release parking brake lever check if both wheels rotate freely.