[Paige]

Lever and parking brake. So that's like a bicycle, one brake each hand?

 

[Yromulus]

A Honda rep at the NEC show said that the parking brake was "out of comfortable reach" so people transitioning from a regular manual to a DCT wouldn't slide down the road if they forgot they didn't have a clutch. A bit like the first time you drive an automatic car after using manuals for years and skid to a halt when you go to change gear...

So I guess they aren't expecting people to use it when in motion. I wonder if the parking brake has different pads that might not like being regularly used...who knows?!

 

[Jonathon O'Reilly]

A Honda rep at the NEC show said that the parking brake was "out of comfortable reach" so people transitioning from a regular manual to a DCT wouldn't slide down the road if they forgot they didn't have a clutch. A bit like the first time you drive an automatic car after using manuals for years and skid to a halt when you go to change gear...

So I guess they aren't expecting people to use it when in motion. I wonder if the parking brake has different pads that might not like being regularly used...who knows?!

On some pictured is looks like the parking break piston connects directly to the brake cable. I guess this is to save weight but I doubt it has any more stopping power than required by a handbrake.

 

[anotherbiker]

Seems like it's a much bigger parking brake lever than on other Honda DCT bikes, which is odd as I would say this one is more likely to be dropped than the others due to the likelihood of it being taken off road!

 

[iSlanderYT]

Its out of reach, you have to take your hand off the handlebar to reach it properly.

 

[Nessuno]

So the whole lever is the parking brake and the extra bit is a latch/lock?

 

[Juha]

So the whole lever is the parking brake and the extra bit is a latch/lock?

Yes. Watch this video starting at 3:40 min.

 

[Nessuno]

Yes. Watch this video starting at 3:40 min.

Thank you sir. So the pic in OP is in the 'parked' position.

 

[anotherbiker]

Still looks like it's a bent/broken lever waiting to happen in a drop if you ask me... I wonder why they changed the design from the other DCT bikes. I guess if it does break on a trip then it's not essential to get it fixed before you get home... just don't park on a hill.

 

[JasonWD]

Now I'm wondering if it is possible to put a proper rear brake lever on there...

 

[DCTFAN]

AT Easter Egg?

Little known fact, not even mentioned in the owner manual.
The parking lever has four lock positions.
Each click is stronger than the previous position in succession.
Just squeeze harder and lock in.

 

[Svendus]

Now I'm wondering if it is possible to put a proper rear brake lever on there...

2020 CRF1100 DCT Left Hand Rear Brake Modification

G'day Nice People's, Here is a link to my 2020 Honda CRF1100 Africa Twin Adventure Sport ES DCT Left Hand Rear Brake Modification. I had done the same previously to my 2017 AT DCT. Hope you enjoy. Peter.

www.africatwinforum.com

 

[AT-Dragon]

2020 CRF1100 DCT Left Hand Rear Brake Modification

G'day Nice People's, Here is a link to my 2020 Honda CRF1100 Africa Twin Adventure Sport ES DCT Left Hand Rear Brake Modification. I had done the same previously to my 2017 AT DCT. Hope you enjoy. Peter.

www.africatwinforum.com

@Svendus
You might want to watch the dates on the posts, that question you answered was from 2016. This forum just brings up “relevant” threads and doesn’t sort them by the dates they were posted. So it will dredge up things even from when the forum was first started and the AT community was full of questions that have now become more “common knowledge “..
Not to mention by members that may no longer participate here..

 

[Svendus]

@AT-Dragon

All right Sorry missed the date. there are a lot off posts on this subjeckt