January 5, 2019

Classic brakes – sharper MC?

Classic brakes – sharper MC?

My VF1000 is very, eh, classic in the braking department.


It has 2 piston sliding calipers on 296mm discs, so never marvellous, and even worse hauling up a kerb weight of some 258kg.


It has braided hoses, freshly cleaned and greased calipers and Goldfren carbon ceramic HH pads running on Brembo discs, but it seems to take a long time for the lever pressure to build into braking effect.


Would moving from the OEM 5/8″ (15.875mm) master cylinder to a 14mm one give me more pressure for better performance?


Would a radial master cylinder work with this set up?


All the radial cylinders seem to be quite large bore, do they work differently to the axial ones?


Cheers,

A


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