Front caliper seizing
My KLE is the winter bike and it comes out when the roads get gritted or I get to go off road. It gets cleaned once a week and I do look after it. It does about 4000 miles a year.
I find the front caliper gets really mucky and seizes far more than any other bike I have owned or come across. It tends to be the smaller of the two pistons that goes first. This time it has seized solid, neither piston will come out and have scored the smaller one trying. They are both very rusted even though they are only a year old as I replaced them last winter due to seizing.
I found a ER500 front caliper in very good condition and corrosion free on ebay for £30 and will replace the old one. It will definitely fit the KLE, the part numbers are the same and they look identical.
I am just wondering, will this just happen again, or have I been unlucky?
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