Brake Line length and routing

[tigerclaw]

My bike has non standard braded hoses but they seem long? with the front wheel off the ground they still have a lot of extra length in them. Three questions :

1) What length should they be? (Just long enough with the wheel off the ground and still allowing comfortable / full steering movement?)

2) I guess they must be exactly the same length to have exactly consistent pressure or would this difference not be worth worrying about?

3) Instead of holding them together at some point and the splitting ways again (mine has a little aluminium holder) surely it would be neater to attach them separately to each yoke / fork (or is there some reason that makes this a bad idea?)

As always thanks for the help

[Tim400GB]

If its not leaking anywhere and the lines are not rubbing against anything then I would say you are worrying about nothing.
leave it be

[tigerclaw]

:) Thanks Timon, I wanted to redo the lines with nice ends (the current ones are a bit dull and old) also the previous guy has taped some of the braided hose to stop it from chafing against the fairing. So I thought because I am going to redo the ends I may change the length... but maybe a bit of attention with my buffing wheel will change that :) I am busy rebuilding the bike and am really enjoying it / going slightly overboard... I have even wirewheeled and buffed some of the bolts on the bike :) but I hear you