Full caliper overhaul VS brake upgrade: Discuss

[fastdruid]

Arn't the RR brakes Radial? My old mans 600RR has radial brakes (it's a 58 plate though!)

No not these ones, straight swap identical but lighter and stronger. The newer ones may be though (as are the ones I'm fitting to the SV, off a GSXR600K8 )

As for my original post, I think many people just upgrade their brakes without even looking to see what they need to do to get their orignal calipers back in shape, often it can just be seals that are needed, this would then most times work out cheaper than a set of new calipers etc :)

Yep, as per my point of replacing worn out OE with aftermarket then raving about how much better they are.

Street wise if it's cheaper to fix the std calipers i'd rather do that and put the extra money into petrol (seeing as it's £1.10 a litre!!) as there more than enough for the bike :D there well matched, not too fierce, and not too light.

In my case the track bike had no calipers and it was no pricier to get CBR600RR than NC35! For a track only bike I would do it again, for a road/track bike I wouldn't bother, the std calipers are spot on.

Druid