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Front brake pads? - 1996 K1100RS

 
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Moondog
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:02 pm    Post subject: Front brake pads? - 1996 K1100RS Reply with quote

So what is everyone using for front brake pads?

I got the front end all ripped apart so better change the pads while I am there. They are due. And who's got the best deals.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.amazon.com/EBC-KEVLAR-BRAKE-PADS-FA407/dp/B00230LAD6
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got a set of these waiting to go on from BeemerBoneyard...not the cheapest though...

http://www.beemerboneyard.com/cl2430sbk5.html
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just my .02 but I've never seen the need to put HH pads on a 4V K. IMO the brakes are good enough using regular pads and HH pads wear your rotors faster.

I can see doing it on a 2V though since those brakes are kind of so-so.
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Bob T
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flying Duck wrote:
Just my .02 but I've never seen the need to put HH pads on a 4V K. IMO the brakes are good enough using regular pads and HH pads wear your rotors faster.

I can see doing it on a 2V though since those brakes are kind of so-so.


Figures...shoulda asked before I bought... Wink

Oh well...I've got them now... Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:53 pm    Post subject: Re: Front brake pads? - 1996 K1100RS Reply with quote

Moondog wrote:
So what is everyone using for front brake pads?

I got the front end all ripped apart so better change the pads while I am there. They are due. And who's got the best deals.


I use cardboard. Shocked
Recomended by the SA Taxi industry.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/crashed-taxi-had-cardboard-brake-pads-1.84820
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If it's good enough for a taxi then it's good enough for my bikes. Laughing
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Mystic Red
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Cardboard brake pads were found in the braking system of a minibus taxi that was involved in a collision with another minibus.

The accident occurred at about 7.10am on Thursday after the taxi's brakes failed at the intersection of the Old Vereeniging Road and Main Road in Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg, police said.

Twenty-three people were injured, five seriously


What I find hard to believe is that there was only 23 people injured. Don't they easily fit that many on one bus? Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Flying Duck wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/EBC-KEVLAR-BRAKE-PADS-FA407/dp/B00230LAD6


Hey Duck, the image doesn't look anything like I have. Is that a generic picture? Good price. Brembo brakes?
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moondog wrote:
Flying Duck wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/EBC-KEVLAR-BRAKE-PADS-FA407/dp/B00230LAD6


Hey Duck, the image doesn't look anything like I have. Is that a generic picture? Good price. Brembo brakes?


Must be. I just installed FA407s on my LT last week and they look like they should.
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86 K75C w/paralever, hi perf cams,TURBO!
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14 WR250R
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