Brembo front brake pad recommendations

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Mingh

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For the original front facing brembo brakes, what make of pads would you recommend? Current ones feel like wood and have about the same stopping power as plywood. Tried all the tricks to remove glazing etc, but the effect is minimal.
 
I would be interest in others opinions too. I have been using GALFER with the new 1054 compound. Not as good as the old Galfer green compound. Kinda wooden.

How about the Ferodo (CP1) FDB108 pads?
 
Lucas
and more easily obtained on the continent than in the UK, but they are still there, I don't use the old P08's on the front any more, so this was a few years ago, but without a shadow of my own doubt, they were the best stoppers, I never recorded the quantity of black dust like my Jockanese mate Hamish McSock, but then he is a way better polisher than me.
CLEM
 
Brembo from Paddy too..the cc ones  mentioned by the Sock. I have the solid discs,  steel braided lines and a grimeca master cylinder after a professionally refurbed brembo one failed giving a heart stopping moment on the motorway a few years ago. The rear one, which i did myself , first time ever done  works fine.
 
OK, cueing up a bucket full of 'corrective' comments here, but hey, here goes...

I run different types in the front LH and RH calipers. A low speed grab organic in one side and a higher speed hot-capable in the other. Covers all thees bases. Done it for years with no issues, on my quicker bikes too, not just Laverda.

 
Paul H said:
I run different types in the front LH and RH calipers. A low speed grab organic in one side and a higher speed hot-capable in the other.
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Makes sense if you set it up knowing whether you will be encountering more LH turns or more RH turns. Why not go all the way and put a 4 pot caliper on one side. Should be able to induce even more flexing in the forks!

Maybe as Paul mentions it could be poor master cyclinder. Why not use two modern master cylinders ..... one for each disc. Then if you want to induce flex on a specific fork ..... you just squeeze that brake lever harder.

The possibilities are endless!

Jim
 
helicopterjim said:
Makes sense if you set it up knowing whether you will be encountering more LH turns or more RH turns. Why not go all the way and put a 4 pot caliper on one side. Should be able to induce even more flexing in the forks!

Jim
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Try it Jim, the pads really aren't that different so as to induce the dramatic twist you suggest.
 
Paul H said:
OK, cueing up a bucket full of 'corrective' comments here, but hey, here goes...

I run different types in the front LH and RH calipers. A low speed grab organic in one side and a higher speed hot-capable in the other. Covers all thees bases. Done it for years with no issues, on my quicker bikes too, not just Laverda.
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Well if it works for you, it?s cool.  I recall riding a Guzzi with twin P08 calipers, with linked brakes so one operated by the bar lever and one with the foot ?rear? lever.  I have a modern Honda which does something very similar.  Anyone ever fitted Guzzi Linked brakes to a Laverda?

No, I thought not.
 
Andy J said:
Apparently they work well until the point they stop working and you have no brakes at all  :o
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I?m not a great fan of Guzzi brakes Andy, but they?re not meant to fail like that.  In a worst case single master cylinder failure a Guzzi will leave you with a single front caliper, whereas a Laverda would leave you with a single rear caliper.... 

But have you ever had a total front brake failure?  I guess it?s really rare.
 
stop taking the piss out of Mr Paul Haggis now Jim if you please, he is a (IMHO) very learned and clever engineer who does not give advice unless it is something that he has tried and it works, my ultra heavy pan European has very different fork legs left and right, the left has a mechanical anti dive, which works by braked induced movement of the calliper, the left does not and is totally different, even the oil quantities are different, the left had=s a damper mechanism in the conventional way and the right has it attached to the underside of the top nut, the spindle is nothing very unusual, and there is only a very mild fork brace under the front mudguard, more heavy duty bracket than a brace, and it all works,
poor old Hag, he was only passing on something that he had discovered as good.
CLEM
 
If you wanted to go Haggis?way, you could use different pads each side of the same disc in the one caliper. On a setup with ISR 6 piston calipers you could cover all the bases, 6 individual pads each side. I agree with Paul's comment, virtually any modern pads will work fine on the road, if they are not working then something is preventing them getting correct pressure or grip.
 
CLEMTOG said:
stop taking the piss out of Mr Paul Haggis now Jim if you please, he is a (IMHO) very learned and clever engineer who does not give advice unless it is something that he has tried and it works
CLEM
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Aye ..... but not clear if he put one of each pad in each caliper or one type one side and the other type other side.

I await the clarity of the engineer to set me straight. I would truly enjoy hearing more from Mr. haggis.

Jim
 
I installed new sets of Brembo carbon ceramic pads front and rear on my sfc1000, and brakes has never been so good. A marked difference for the better. Now two fingers are enough. And still very easy to modulate with good feel.

Kind regards,
Jacques
 
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