 Re: brake pad survey
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Freelance Jedi Knight
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Freelance Jedi Knight
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I'm too scary to use rear break  only to take rust off disc, front break do the job 
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Re: brake pad survey
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Joined: Mar 2005
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both around 7K. switched to the sintered pads from Brent and they both look great at 12K right now.
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Re: brake pad survey
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Joined: Jun 2006
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Loquacious
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Loquacious
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After reading all of these posts, what I don't understand is the use of rear bake on cursers type bikes.....I copied this from riding tip section:
"Try to use the front brake only - and don't grab it. You will slow up quicker using the front because the weight of the bike is transferred to the front of the machine as it slows, effectively driving the front wheel into the Tarmac.
The rear becomes very light when this is happening, so heavy use of the back brake will only result in locking the back wheel up - because the back tyre is making, so little contact with the road. Even the act of closing the throttle transfers weight to the front of the bike, so for this drill you are best off leaving the back brake alone"
So why do you guys rely on the rear brake so much
Good question. Sport bikes, with a short wheelbase, steep rake, and forward weight bias, transfer weight hard under braking. So the back brake is mostly useless under hard braking.
But there's a big difference with our bikes. We have a 33 degree rake, a long wheelbase, and a low center of gravity. That means we don't transfer as much weight to the front wheel under braking. On my last bike (ZR-7S), I could hear the back tire going irrt, irrt, irrt, as it started to hop off the ground. That doesn't happen on my Speedmaster. What happens is the front tire goes irrt, irrt, irrt, and if you squeeze any harder, the front wheel will lock up. I've had this happen at 70mph and it's not fun, because the wheel tends to turn sideways.
I think if the front suspension were better you could use more front brake.
Anyway, the rear tire has remained on the ground during all this, so you might as well use it's brake and stop as quick as you can.
Has anyone, maybe those with suspension mods, pulled a stoppie on a Speedmaster?
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Re: brake pad survey
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Joined: Mar 2006
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Loquacious
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Loquacious
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I tend to use my rear brakes with less OOOOmph after more riding experience with our bikes. I use both front and rears at the same time but much less is put into the rear and more on the fronts.
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Re: brake pad survey
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3/4 Throttle
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3/4 Throttle
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The Harley I had (dyna ) I put progressive shocks, front springs and changed fork oil. I had floating rotors and sintered pads....I could all most lift the back up using the front brake...Maybe the my speedmaster could do the same thing....with the changes I made to the Harley no one could keep up with me (riding the same style bike, sportbike would kick my ******) in the turns....I could carry speed into a turn and out brake other bikes. But I did alot of track days on a sportbike also.
All of that aaid, all the riding books, and rider courses all say about 60-70% front bake and 40-30% rear baking....
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I changed mine at 3500 on the back put EBCs on now but more fun with back brake front if i need to stop fast into the bend ask steveboy hahaha lets have fun
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