Rear brakes seized

surrealjam · Post by **surrealjam** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:23 pm

Hi all

The rear brakes on my 480 appear to be slightly seized.

Is this likely to be caused by handbrake cable, calipers or something else? Are there any guides to freeing up seized brakes which anyone could recommend?

I can see there have been other posts on brakes sticking but nothing which would give me the confidence to risk trying to sort it myself!!

Cheers,
James

Mr Greedy · Post by **Mr Greedy** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:30 pm

There is a spring on the bottom of the rear calipers that releases the handbrake. Check that this isn't full of cr@p and blocking the spring release.