Rear Wheel Locking Up on RD 350LC

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I am having problems with my rear wheel locking up whilst riding. It is an RD350LC but it has had a 250LC back wheel. I have checked the wheel and the bearings and there are no obvious damage. The brake shoes are intact. The back wheel locked up at around 50mph whilst I was going round a bend. Does anybody have any ideas what this might be but, as far as I know, the engine did not seize as it still runs.
Many thanks

[billy]

Get your foot off the brake lever and problem is solved. ;D

On a serious note: The fact that the engine is running now doesn't neccessarily mean that it didn't nip up a bit before, when the rear wheel locked up. That can happen, it has hapened to my LC once. (not so the wheel locked up completely, and the bike made it, I just had to wet&dry a piston skirt a tad lol)

Could the engine have had a "nip up moment" and then made it? Surely the engine revs must have dropped, unless you pulled the clutch fast enough to feel that the engine were still running while the rear wheel didn't?

[Pidz]

Yes, I would go with a temporary engine nip up. This happened when I was pillion on my mates DT100 many years ago. Fortunately we were straight and upright. He pulled the clutch in and used the kill switch. We stopped and found nothing wrong with the back end at all. It was then we decided it could be the motor. We had a ciggy and let it cool for 5 minutes, then cautiously restarted it. It worked fine. It never happened again. Maybe nowadays as I am older and wiser, I would strip the top end and try to find the cause. What is the price of a couple of gaskets, to be sure?

[Norbo]

wip the plugs out and see what the look like se if you have any alloy on them drop the pipes of and look up and see if the piston has anything on it that looks like scuffs .

[pepsisteve]

ive always felt mine go a bit odd before a sieze, as norbo said, whip the pipes off and have a look up there with a torch.