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