That's my bike off the road then

Heh, I'm sure he'll be along to confirm or deny.

 

*Snort*
could you remain sober that long?

Loz I've sms'd a reply. These other carriers are different and for the
solid rotors which I'm sure are warped. That's why they changed the
rotor pattern! There was only one good set of buttons which you have,
I'll see if I still have the other. I'm sure yours are the latest
design carrier/disk CP3109.

If one popped then the circlip dropped or broke.

Considering how tight they were when built I'm bemused how they could
have worn. Then again these are race brakes, how many miles are they
meant to last?

Harris will know whets going on and are just down the road from you,
why not take them down and ask:
6 Marshgate Industrial Estate, Hertford SG13 7AQ Tel: (01992) 532500

'Hog

 

tallbloke says...

Go right ahead, the part that broke and fell off was British made. I
have AP Racing calipers and discs. I've never known anything like this
happen with Japanese made parts.

The bike is 3 years old and lived near the sea in the open air when Hog
owned it, the only corroded parts are the aftermarket disc bobbins and
some fasteners that were made in Britain.

 

'Hog says...

I got the sms, but my mobile is out of credit so couldn't reply, sorry.

The discs I have are the CP3109s, with stainless rotors. The early type
ones are cast iron but I dodn't know the carrier design was different.
I'm going to bite the bullet and buy a complete new set of discs when I
get paid. I'm not going to compromise safety for the sake of pissing
around with them. It works out cheaper to buy them complete anyway,
cheaper than buying just the carriers and bobbins alone. That way I have
a spare set of rotors in case the new ones warp as well.

It might have sheared, there's excessive movement in the disc assembly
now, far more than is acceptable.

Harris say 4,000 race miles. I guess that's 8,000 road miles. So every
third set of tyres, or once a year, I'll need new discs. At 450 quid a
pair that's pricey, but can you put a maximum acceptable price on stuff
like that when it works so much better than anything you've ever used
before.

I've been there a few times now and the bike is bristling with their
goodies. Steve and I are on first name terms now. I'm not sure that's a
good thing. He won't be happy when he sees the fully adjustable Gilles
titanium coloured rearsets I've just bought on eBay.

I've just spent the past 4 hours cleaning the bike down, it's now as
clean and shiny as Ben Sales' or Daz's ones. I could just sit and look
at the thing all day, it's better looking than Kylie.

 

Lozzo wrote

I think you can redo those sums a bit more in favour of your pocket.
One race mile is not equal to two road miles, nowhere near it. More
like 10 I would have thought.

 

steve auvache says...

All depends who's riding.

 

Lozzo wrote

I was sort of assuming it was you but if you are including others in
your working out you might be right.

 

I *really* want to know what Harris say when they see them tho. Need
to know WTF is goin on with them.

<suggestion>
Give me the callipers back and you can have the complete standard
disks and 6 pots. With the Goodridge and HH pads it was excellent. In
fact I saw new wavy disks on fleabay for £149/pair

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GSXR-Wavy-Ful...ryZ10534QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The AP callipers dont fit the standard disks BTW, I tried that.

Well she has aged a lot this year

'Hog

 

'Hog says...

I showed Steve them about a month ago, he said I needed to pull the lot
apart and do some measuring up. From what I've seen of this particular
slot they are fucked. There's way more of a gap on the carrier than on
the rotor. All the bobbins move around far too much now, so I'll get new
doscs.

I'll stick with these thanks. I really like the way they work, and
paying for new discs once a year is far less aggravation than stripping
and rebuilding a set of Tokico 6 pots twice a year. I took the Tokico 6
pots off Bee's ZX-9R and fitted 4 pots from a TL1000S instead, because
they work better and don't seize up every 5 minutes. I'm very anti-
Tokico 6 pots at the moment.

 

'Hog says...

I'll stick with these thanks. I really like the way they work, and
paying for new discs once a year is far less aggravation than
stripping
and rebuilding a set of Tokico 6 pots twice a year. I took the Tokico
6
pots off Bee's ZX-9R and fitted 4 pots from a TL1000S instead, because
they work better and don't seize up every 5 minutes. I'm very anti-
Tokico 6 pots at the moment.

Heh, god loves a trier......

'Hog

 

@news.individual.net:

Pikey bastards.

Personally, I prefer Brembo components. Or brit drum brakes for low speed
applications

 

Lozzo scribbled:

FFS don't say that to that bird when you take her out for a drink!

 

frag says...

She'll be in my car when we go, so she'll have no fucking choice but to
sit and listen to whatever I say....and fucking like it too.

I'm done with being Mr Nice-Guy, Laurie the Bedford Bastard rides again.

 

Not again. You change character modes more often than David Beckham
changes his hairstyles.

 

Another couple of weeks of hard yakka and you'd have it up to JP's
standards -- except it's not *green*, of course!

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Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

Dr Ivan D. Reid says...

It may well be clean, but it'll never be green...thank god.

 

Lozzo scribbled:

Hehehe.

Oh, you know you found out about the missing bobbin? And then cleaned
the bike? I presume also cleaning the chain? And I also assume that
included the 5 minute run to get rid of excess paraffin and to warm the
chain up, as you explained to someone? I guess you found out where Elly
hid the keys then? YTTTC! (if you did indeed ride it like that!

 

frag says...

I cleaned the chain the other day, then cleaned the wheel today. I have
a scottoiler so didn't need to lube the chain. The bike isn't being
ridden until new discs are fitted.

 

Umm no. Having had Brembo Goldlines and the AP's....there is no
comparison. As loz has said before, 160 to a tyre howling stop with
one finger and not a lot of pressure. The drums are certainly more
novice proof.

'Hog

 

All my applications are low speed compared to you rice-rocket pilots ;-)