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Message started by DaddySauce on 06/16/06 at 11:45:07

Title: Front brake suggestions??
Post by DaddySauce on 06/16/06 at 11:45:07

I'm coming up on 3200 miles on my 2001 Savage. The brakes (stock) have been doing the "squeek" thing for awhile now and I'm finally sick of it. Anybody have suggestions on brake pads?

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by 911radioman on 06/16/06 at 12:27:12

SBS. Excellent brake pads.

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by Roadie on 06/16/06 at 15:19:15

DaddySauce wrote:

I'm coming up on 3200 miles on my 2001 Savage. The brakes (stock) have been doing the "squeek" thing for awhile now and I'm finally sick of it. Anybody have suggestions on brake pads?

Installed EBC's... If you don't have a mighty vac, buy one as well.. TRUST ME.

- Roadie

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by PerrydaSavage on 06/16/06 at 16:10:13

Quote:

SBS. Excellent brake pads.

I'll second this suggestion ... installed SBS ceramics on my scoot a couple of months ago and no squeaky!!

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by vroom1776 on 06/16/06 at 16:17:11

Just get rid of the front brakes all together. Then you can have100% of your stopping power in the rear instead of just a lousy 30%! ;)

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Post by Keith_B on 06/16/06 at 19:42:48

:o LOL ::)

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by DaddySauce on 06/19/06 at 14:41:26

100% rear brake power... I'm a gambler ::)

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by steelwolf on 06/19/06 at 15:11:36

Why save the rear? Scrap them too. You can always put your feet down. That'll work till you get to that truck. ;D

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by vroom1776 on 06/19/06 at 15:17:42

One of my room mates has about 20 bicycles. On quite a few of them, he's removed the brakes. Bushes & feet = stopping power. He once ran into another guy on a bike w/o brakes! Don't try this while drunk, kids! It hurts!

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by Island_Biker on 06/20/06 at 05:58:21

steelwolf wrote:

Why save the rear? Scrap them too. You can always put your feet down. That'll work till you get to that truck. ;D

Heck, you might as well lighten her up by ditching the engine and transmission and running her full Fred Flintstone style.

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by luken on 06/20/06 at 15:15:08

Roadie wrote:

Installed EBC's... If you don't have a mighty vac, buy one as well.. TRUST ME.

- Roadie

***Newbie Alert***
Lots of stuff there that I dont understand. EBC's? Mighty vac? ???

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by MacAttack on 06/20/06 at 16:02:59

EBC is a brand of brake pad. A MityVac is a brake-bleeding device with a vacuum pump. It makes one-person brake bleeding easy.
If you're changing your brake pads, you don't need to bleed your brakes, or even take off the front wheel. But - Suzuki recommend changing your fluid every 2 years, and changing the brake hose every 4. I think both are good suggestions - brake fluid absorbs moisture - and changing the brake line allows you to go with a stainless-steel braided one, if you choose (stiffer feel).

You can bleed your brakes with an assistant quite easily. The MityVac would be nice if you didn't have an assistant, or wanted to flush the lines on your cage.

Title: Re: Front brake suggestions??
Post by klx650sm2002 on 06/21/06 at 03:11:22

You could try E.B.C. disc & pads, I have them on both ends of my KLX and they work well.

Clive W :D