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Johnwebley:

  although I have twin discs,I feel the brakes have no bite,

 plenty of grip and it stops,but seems to need to warm the pads up first,
 I have EBC sintered ,
 are they to hard?
 are the fibre ones softer with more initial grip ?

  what pads do you use,and reccommend?

Erny:
I recommend genuine Honda

deltarider:

--- Quote from: Erny on October 10, 2020, 09:27:04 PM ---I recommend genuine Honda

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So do I.

K2-K6:
John, I've experimented a fair amount with different materials and feel they may give you more of the characteristics you want if treated in a certain way first.

For cars, bikes and cycle discs when using sintered pads they all feel quite dull and lacking in bite when new.  After a period to let them physically bed to the disc (principally geometric) they then need to be heated to quite extreme temperatures by dragging them until that is reached.  After which they have much better initial bite and feel to the brake application.
It seems to coat the disc with something from the pad material,  as if you've a brake that's working well which you then clean the disc with brake cleaner,  the feel and bite is again removed,  until they are again treated to heating cycle.

Initially it doesn't feel like anything is changing as you heat them, but then as you go for a few speed and heavy applications the brake feel can be observed changing quite quickly.

paulbaker1954:

--- Quote from: Oddjob on October 21, 2020, 08:35:28 PM ---Anyone tried SBS ceramic pads, got them on my CB1300 and they are fantastic, great bite, don’t wear the discs like sintered and very little dust. Work well from cold as well unlike sintered and resist fading unlike organic. Fairly sure I checked that SBS make them for the 500/550 but could be wrong.

When mines ready for the road I’ll certainly be fitting them if available. Just checked and they are SBS 501HF

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Good to know Ken, just changed mine for ENC in an attempt to stop bloody brake squeal which didn’t help.

One of these days I will lose the squeal.

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