Q Was that in Vic, I didnt think they had annual inspections there. The big difference Vic between NS. We are red hot on annual inspection and having old cars it was huge grief to pass it, usually rust dramas. My first visit to Melbourne had me arrive on a train to Flinders St after having a rear-wheel hub completely destroyed at Sale, seized wheel bearing ripping the hug to dust. While waiting for the 3hrs to be picked up I noticed 2 very odd things. First was 2 cops stopping random cars and crawling under and around them, apparently doing rumdum defect checks and the other was what I learned later as BOX INTERSECTION turns. I had never heard of that ever. Really funny to watch.
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piranha-bro2
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Called 'hook turns' Vince. They are designed to allow trams passage at CBD intersections where a right turning car would otherwise block their path. Yes, random RWC checks by the fuzz do occur, but I do like the RWC once and not annually. NSW system could be a money drain for some!
81Lav
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- NSW Australia
Spot on Tom, the ones on my orange SFC 1000 are off a Bimota. I am also told they were fitted to the early Ducati 888's. The problem is they are virtually unobtainium. They have the 80mm centre bore and 101.5 PCD but more imortantly they have the correct offset at approx 25mm.Hi Cam, after a little searching I can confirm that the 320 mm rotors on the yb4 through to the yb8 will fit our old clunkers. They are 101.5PCD and have an 80mm centre bore. I was incorrect on the Ducati and Guzzi discs but in my defence I did say that I wasn’t sure. Still you can’t always be correct can you.
Tom
Stein Dinse do/did list some Speigler 320's with the right centre, PCD and offset so I bought a set as spares. The bobbins in them are so loose they make the Brembo's sound tight.
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Certainly agree Red, Metalgear make excellent products and run a great operation in Brisbane. I used their Laverda 3CL rotors, quality kit. And Bernie was extremely helpful in tracking down an unusual resonance problem with me on my Honda rotor/carrier fronts. When we worked out the problem, Bernie replaced the too-tight buttons and problem solved. They are my go-to company for sprockets too.Metalgear in Brisbane sell stainless version rotors to suit the Laverda carriers and work really well with sintered brake pads
Been using them for years with no issues at all, far better than the cast iron version
The 320mm rotors we use on our race bikes are Metalgear supplied, very good kit
When we built Mike's Mk3 Motodd we used Ducati Multistrada Showa upside down forks mated to 1986/7 Slabside GSXR 18" rims so we had to machine our own brake rotor carriers as they were a custom offset, bolt patter which we did to match a 320mm Ducati rotor using the Ducati carrier design as the basis
Went over to Metalgear and the owner Bernie told us that we were the very first customers that he had ever had that turned up with custom machined rotor carriers to have rotors fitted to them
He gave Max and I a guided tour of his set up, not a bad at all
Brake Disc Rotor outer - MetalGear
Brake Disc Rotor outer - MetalGear - Replaces 70777343, 80277340 MetalGear brake disc rotor can be bolted straight onto the original centre re-using your original bolts. You must check your centre for accuracy before fitment.www.metalgear.com.au
CLEMTOG
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heres my cagiva GP500 conversion, just bolt on with calliper brackets from Red (I much refer the look of the protpotypes, rather than the production ones with CSK bolts)
the bobbins were crap when I bought the discs (just to try it all out) once proven oversize ones wer got for me by a French firm that makes them but wouldnt respond to an English email, then I got a second set of o/s bobbins as well, still wiatinf a duff set of discs, but found some new ones from a firm in the IOM that makes them, PVM? it may have been.
se picture, sorry I like the calliper ahead of the forks and this has not caused any problems over ten years and many miles.
CLEM
sorry wrong picture, cant find close up (Red will be pleased)
the bobbins were crap when I bought the discs (just to try it all out) once proven oversize ones wer got for me by a French firm that makes them but wouldnt respond to an English email, then I got a second set of o/s bobbins as well, still wiatinf a duff set of discs, but found some new ones from a firm in the IOM that makes them, PVM? it may have been.
se picture, sorry I like the calliper ahead of the forks and this has not caused any problems over ten years and many miles.
CLEM
sorry wrong picture, cant find close up (Red will be pleased)
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- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Hi Clem
the solid cast iron discs on my RGS warped badly in less that 2,000 miles from new. Had them skimmed and trued, lasted maybe another 1,000 miles and warped again. Threw them in the garbage.
Andy
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A sorry tale! What did you replace them with?
(for the sake of the thread, personally I’m looking into Metalgear since they’re roughly local
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