Brake Pads - Opinions on Ferodo?

As the CBR400RR needed a new caliper, I need to get a
full set of new pads for it.

Hunting around the 'bay, the choice seems to be EBC (spit),
Gold Fren, Armstrong or some very cheap Ferodo pads.

As this is a seller rather than a keeper, I don't really
give a shit what's going into it as I won't be riding it,
but I want to put something semi-decent (but not expensive)
into it. My choice would be CLs but they're 45 quid per
caliper for A3s, so about 4x what I want to pay.

What say the Font?

 

Well regarded by many R-GS riders. An independent service bod in that
Londond started offering them as an alternative to OE and the word rapidly
spread.

<checks webpage> it's the platinum range he stocks
http://www.gsshop.biz/shop/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id=35
£17 for R-GS front ones

I'll be fitting a set later this year as they are a lot cheaper than OE

 

If Ferodo are good enough for my trains, I'm sure they're good enough
for a piddly little 44...

 

It's the Platinum ones I've seen for £11.99 a caliper.
As long as they actually stop and are not EBC, I'll be happy!

 

anything that can stop an R1150GS, an average sized rider (say BMI 30) plus
maybe a pillion, luggage and the contents of the Touratech catalogue has to
be pretty effective

 

<votes for javelin through front wheel>

 

I'll go with the FITS[1] braking system


[1] Foot In The Spokes

 

I could have guessed that - but did you read wessie's spec up there? I
reckon your foot would have to try pretty hard, and would ultimately
lose, tbh. A javelin, on the other hand, is expendable and doesn't
induce screaming agony as it's ripped in half by the supertanker-like
inertia of a fully-loaded GS.

<Hog mode>

I was, of course, referring to a Jowett Javelin, driven by a myopic
munter in a hat, performing a U-turn just around a blind corner?

</hm>

 

I tried Ferodo pads on my 9R and they were fucking shite. I took them
out and went back to EBC HH pads after about 1500 miles.

Ok for a seller though..

 

I shoved some on the RR & they are loads better than LR pads.

 

Well, that's the key: (a) I'm not keeping it, and (b) they're
very cheap, and (c) they're not EBC. So I think Ferodo it is.

 

I put Mintex in the Bimmer because they were the most expensive
make I could find on ebay that I'd heard of ... a whole £18 for
a front SET of pads that were over an inch thick, ffs! The matching
rear set were £13.

It must be down to market scale that makes them so cheap.

 

What's the issue with EBC? I've used them on 2 bikes now and they were
better than oem, and despite ukrm myth, didn't have any negative
impact on the discs.

 

But to be fair, you don't give them a lot of high-speed use...

 

No, but they do get a lot of use.

 

Right.

 

Well, I had an experience with a set of EBC Greens in the RF900: I
bought 'em 'cos they were cheap, and I assumed that as they were a
known make that there wouldn't be a problem with 'em. However, giving
it large past a line of ukrmers on a rideout and then slowing for a
sharpish corner was beyond them - taking the RF plus me from 160ish to
a desired 60 wasn't going to happen, as there was a fuckload of
vibration, an 'orrible noise and precious little in the way of
retardation going on.

Hurled it on its ear and gassed it and managed to make it, albeit on a
rather wide line, only to be looking at a tighter than 90 corner 50m in
front. Ignoring the tortured noises, clouds of dust and stench of
cooking ferodo got the plot down to 40ish from 90ish and the corner was
negotiated, albeit with the imposition of a permanent seat pucker.

Fair enough, I've not had a real problem with HH pads, but I was
appalled that a major player would issue pads in a size appropriate for
a fast(ish) bike that patently are not up to the job. Therefore I will
not trust them again. CLs for me, now.

 

CL, Vesrah or original for me every time

My CBR has genuine Honda pads and for a standard bike with standard
equipment pads and just a set of braided lines, the braking is
astounding.

 

Oh those EBC non HH pads are awful shite, agreed. Though the shiny copper
ones are the DB IMHO.

As for Ferodo, well Motorworks once *gave* me a set of them for a K as I had
dropped a wedge. Silvery grey organic types. I rode off with them in on the
day. I stopped past Manc and put the old worn OEM's back in.