I just fitted my park and with the bike on the centre stand thought I would see how firm I needed to set the park brake only to find the my hand brake was not operating on the back wheel at all. Jacked the front wheel up and checked that the foot brake was operating on the front wheel and that was OK.
Has anybody tested theirs?
Just wondering if something was not done correctly when it had the brake recall done on it.
Mine is a 2008 model
The hand brake doesn't activate the rear calliper directly whereas the foot brake directly operates the centre pot in each calliper.
If the 1300 layout is the same as the 1100 then you will have a secondary master cylinder which is activated by the LH front calliper which in turn operates the two outer pots on the rear.
So any braking on the front wheel operates the rear brake. Even the foot brake alone causes enough braking effort on the front wheel to cause all three pots on the back to work plus one pot in each front calliper.
Confusing; yes, but the picture shows basically how it is set up
img064 by
Alan, on Flickr