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Front brake pads
neat street:
Just to point out that if you replaced the pads as well (as you stated) they may just need to be bedded in, aalthough they are not the best brakes, they may well improve :-)
Treve:
Since Brembo makes these, someone should have tested them and have some kind of opinion. I have steel braided brake hoses and now I'm going to choose brake shoes.
I have EBC FA012V and these Brembo pads as my main options. Maybe it doesn't matter which ones I choose.
K2-K6:
The ceramic pad type seems quite stable and works well on the applications I've tried. I've not used them on a 750 disc though, so general observations from me.
It appears there's some marketing "flexibility" in the naming though as "Carbon Ceramic" is very obviously already used for much more expensive disc materials and associated pads.
My experience is that they have a gentle initial bite, then more accumulated friction effect (their publicity of friction co-efficient seems to agree with this in the graph ) as they are both clamped and getting hotter. I like that linearity and consistency more than pads that give first touch superficial high bite feel.
They do give smooth surface and low wear characteristics to the pad that's very consistent over life.
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I fitted Brembo Carbon Ceramic pads to my 400, I am happy with the performace compared with the DS ones that came with the bike.
I also have the DS master cylinder, the front brake lever is virtually devoid of free pay with no sponginess.
Treve:
Thank you both for your thoughts "Ted" and "K2-K6". Interesting to read because I have never heard about Brembo pads to our 50+ year bikes before. I was a little suspicious to that "carbon ceramics"-naming. But with your comments I am prepared to give it a go. I will give a revue later on.
Thanks
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