An alternative to Brembo calipers

Dellortoman

Dellortoman

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This is a bit of cross-pollenation from my Japanese bike connections: Pretech Precision Engineering http://www.pretech.co.uk/page_31.php?pgenme=catalogue

THey make 6-pot brake calipers for pretty much any bike, and they have a replacement caliper for Bevel Ducatis that should bolt straight on to our old clunkers too. It has the 40mm bolt spacing to fit Marzocchi/Ceriani forks.

The bloke who put me on to this supplier runs Pretech calipers on his Kawasaki and reckons they're top quality. He can pull stoppies which is quite impressive because his bike is a Z1300 that weighs in at 300kg!

I've attached a picture of the caliper with the 40mm bolt spacing suitable for Laverdas. The bloke at Pretech who sent me the picture apologised for the colour scheme (a customer choice) but he did say they can do them in any colour.

They're not cheap at £240 plus vat each but come with pads fitted and anodised in the colour of your choice or polished.

Might be an option for anyone looking for one-finger braking performance.

Cheers,
Cam

 

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Reckon that's a bit over the top for the old clunkers, Cam!  Might rip the forks and headstock right off.  Nice for shiny show bikes though, lots of them around... :D

Direct replacements for the P/F08 calipers are available from Grimeca, but only in the later threadless mounting form. New F/P08 are also still available. Both cheaper than sorting a set of truely fucked up calipers.  Secondhand 4-pot P30/34 with the 40mm mounting are still quite plentiful and cheap.  These seem to last quite well, never had any issues with them.

piet
 
They are nice Cam, I too reckon, used in anger on a standard headstock config, there's a good chance or braking breaking the Laverdas neck  and if not, going into a reverse tank slapper...

I did that with 4 pots on the track, the front wheel locks and kind of hops and skips along the tarmac, flexing fore and aft and digging in each time...Yeah should be good fun :)  I want to blame the W****er in front on his Jap rocket but you have to allow folks to do what they do....
 
I have that on my 2004 Thruxton with a galpher wave rotor. It works great!!
However with the Laverda I stayed with Brembo. My Laverda will never be a modern bike again.
 

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Apologies for incorrect info in my opening post. I was confusing myself. The Pretech calipers obviously need the adaptors for 40mm bolt spacing same as the 4-pot brembos. The bolt spacing on the fork legs for F08 calipers is much wider. I forget the exact dimension but it's something  like 90mm.

Cheers,
Cam
 
Dellortoman said:
Apologies for incorrect info in my opening post. I was confusing myself. The Pretech calipers obviously need the adaptors for 40mm bolt spacing same as the 4-pot brembos. The bolt spacing on the fork legs for F08 calipers is much wider. I forget the exact dimension but it's something  like 90mm.
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108mm, Cam.

The smaller single pin F05 calipers as used on the 500 models have 90mm... :D

piet
 
BMW uses some 4-pots that need some slight machining to make them fit properly, but they have the right 108mm mounting distance... They are from Brembo, too:

http://s1.directupload.net/file/d/2629/kvdjnl2s_jpg.htm

It's used on the K1200 RS f.e., but on many others, too.
 
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