1 Sintered brake pads - me no likey Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:36 pm
duck
Life time member
When I rejuvenated my K75 turbo I got rid of that stupid brake line arrangement that goes through the steering head and replaced it with a braided SS line straight from the front master to the right caliper and then a metal line from the right caliper to the left one - so there's pretty much no "mush" in the brake lines.
I thought I'd max out the braking by installing some sintered pads that I had from a parts bike. I can't believe the "bite" of these pads. Instead of being "linear" like regular brake pads, these things seem to be binary and brake way too hard at the slightest bit of pressure on the front brake lever.
I'm definitely going back to normal "organic" brake pads.
Just curious about other owners' experiences with sintered pads.
I thought I'd max out the braking by installing some sintered pads that I had from a parts bike. I can't believe the "bite" of these pads. Instead of being "linear" like regular brake pads, these things seem to be binary and brake way too hard at the slightest bit of pressure on the front brake lever.
I'm definitely going back to normal "organic" brake pads.
Just curious about other owners' experiences with sintered pads.
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Current stable:
86 Custom K100 (standard fairing, K75 Belly pan, Ceramic chromed engine covers, paralever)
K75 Frankenbrick (Paralever, K11 front end, hybrid ABS, K1100RS fairing, radial tires)
86 K75C Turbo w/ paralever
94 K1100RS
93 K1100LT
91 K1
93 K75S (K11 front end)
91 K75S (K1 front end)
14 Yamaha WR250R
98 Taxi Cab K1200RS
14 K1600GT