I’m not knocking the Kneeslider for offering the news …… I’m criticizing the mentality that says this is something that requires government interference as opposed to the idea that owners take responsibility for looking after their own vehicles.

Also, I can just imagine how many pages of useless CYA boilerplate this will add the Kawasaki owners manuals and dollars to the cost of bikes.

Everything has consequences.

It’s likely that there is a portion of the rear brake assembly that allows something like a pebble or other suitably sized piece of debris from allowing the either the pedal itself, or some other piece on the brake, from returning all the way following application of the rear brake.
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It certainly looks to me like there’s plenty of hidden recess there for a piece of gravel to be overlooked. What do you think?

What’s next?

Failure to change your oil could lead to engine failure and possibly injury? Contact your dealer for required service….?

Failure to put gas in your tank could lead to un-anticipated loss of power and may result in becoming a road hazard? and so on………

This could go on and on.

The bottom line is that users have a responsibility to look after their vehicles and the government busybodies need to be there when they actually are called upon by consumers instead of looking for ways to justify their own existence.

Cleaning your machine and keeping debris out of exposed mechanisms is part of the owner’s responsibility as I see it.