cheap fireblade calipers

[pugparcels]

not mine, but bored at work checking through ebay, set of gold fireblade / sp1 calipers. look in good nick £40 the pair. not impressed i just bought some yesterday for double that.

maybe of use to someone.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Honda-CBR-600RR3- ... 2a0f6f8bcf

[Hadies]

Nice and clean those. I paid double that for mine as well.

[pugparcels]

i paid £98 for a pair yesterday, just as clean but that included shipping from the states as everyone here wanted silly money for them. they are a good buy, if i had the spare cash i would get them just to sell them on later.

[alexwitham]

I just went to buy them and they were gone!

[amaechizzle]

Whats the big deal about these?

Is it a noticable amount of stopping power?

[porndoguk]

Whats the big deal about these?

Is it a noticable amount of stopping power?

yes, more positive feel for a start, you dont feel like you have to squeeze as hard as the standard vfr calipers, and obviously better for emergency braking.

i over shot a junction on the nc once because the brakes were so lame, as soon as i had the cbr calipers i never had that problem can go quicker and stop better. simples.

[Neosophist]

Whats the big deal about these?

Is it a noticable amount of stopping power?

yes, more positive feel for a start, you dont feel like you have to squeeze as hard as the standard vfr calipers, and obviously better for emergency braking.

i over shot a junction on the nc once because the brakes were so lame, as soon as i had the cbr calipers i never had that problem can go quicker and stop better. simples.

Were your calipers knackered though?

Personally I think there a waste of money if you have decent pads (OE Nissin etc) and good order calipers / master cylidner on the 30 anything more is overkill unless your on a major track-day mission, the calipers are really well matched to the bike.

You get the same thing with the ZXR, people fit the 6 pots of the big bike.

It is plenty easy enough to lock the front wheel and stoppie the bike even at silly speeds with the standard brakes, so unless your original calipers are knackered and it is cheaper to upgrade the brakes as it often is as a rebuild and decent pads can be quite pricey then id stick with the standard set-up.

I think that if your braking is that crap that you need the improvemnt of the bigger calipers then your an accident waiting to happen. (* over good working NC30 calipers, if you have knackered calipers then dont take offence)

Fitting larger brakes isnt a cure for bad braking technique.

[porndoguk]

probally, but the thing is they were a welcome upgrade at the grand cost of FREE!

[amaechizzle]

I always find that brake upgrades aren't 'essential' but welcome in whatever case. Just because you may upgrade to 6 pots, and only use 20% of your braking all day everyday... when you need to use that braking power, your gonna be f***ing thankful!

Sure when they developed the bike, they would of spent mega bucks in R&D. But let's face. They would of cut costs in certain areas to simply match certain design regulations, or only slightly improve on an earlier model/competitor's model.

[mattUKNC]

I'm sure if someone offered a pair of ISR 6 pots we'd all fit them!
Some of it has to be looks too.
Personally I think they (NC30) stop ok, my old SP1 felt it could stop the world turning when you slammed them on, so on an NC they'd be pretty special.