Sunday, July 26, 2009

These brakes are easy!

So I had to change out the brake pads on the motorcycle, and it was actually easy to do! That's a nice change.

Two screws to take the caliper off, two screws to take out the brake pads and voila!

Another interesting thing (well, to nerdy engineers). The modern sportbike is about the closest thing you can buy off the showroom floor to being fully race prepped. Looking at the 4-piston brake calipers, the pistons are actually different sizes to provide different clamp loads. The leading one is smaller in diameter so that it doesn't bite as hard. If it did, I think it would cause the leading edge of the pad to dig in leading to uneven pad wear.

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