Front brakes squeal...this feels like a saga in the making

[Cormanus]

To add to pdedse and j3gq's request, could we also please hear from 2017 RS owners and 2019 and later EX and RS owners as to whether their front brakes squeal. The bike had a makeover in 2019 or 2020 and it would be interesting to know whether Honda addressed the issue.

And ... on the other topic, I went to the hardware shop yesterday and by some amazing coincidence ...


Finally, Ferret, who is this active diet of whom you speak?

The brakes on my 17'RS don't squeal. One bike is not a big sample though!

Anyway: squealing brakes is a more and more common problem in automotive industry, due to the new restrictions on pads material due to contaminants on brake dust (that will become airborne sooner than later).

Now there is a tendency to use high carbon steel on the rotors, I guess to help minimizing this problem.

(https://www.bremboparts.com/africa/en/pr...gh-carbon)

Really? I’m not able to argue from science, but experientially I’ve no evidence at all of that. I’m not surrounded by new vehicles with squealing brakes.