- Wed Jul 22, 2020 5:56 pm
#91687
Personally I prefer rear disc brakes, which I find much easier to maintain. On my Honda I barely use the rear brake apart from trail braking occasionally and on wet and greasy roads. But the front brake on the C5 is barely adequate even solo at speed and needs assistance from the rear brake. Admittedly some designs of rear brake are poor eg the underslung monstrosity fitted to Triumph T140v bikes but apart from that I’ve never had any issues with them. On the C5 the rear brake design is terrible; it has been known to cause the rear wheel to lock when the torque arm stud shears off, wrecking the swinging arm and possibly causing a bad accident. Not sure about ABS being the reason for introducing a disc on the C5; my 2018 car has ABS, traction control and loads of other “safety” features and that has rear drum brakes. Usually by 3,000 miles the engine smoothes out.