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DaddySauce Junior Member Offline Fried Squid is the best! Posts: 68 Arizona Gender:	Front brake suggestions?? 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?
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911radioman Ex Member	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #1 - 06/16/06 at 12:27:12 SBS. Excellent brake pads.
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Roadie Full Member Offline No, it's not a Harley. Posts: 201 Lansing MI Gender:	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #2 - 06/16/06 at 15:19:15 DaddySauce wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06: 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
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PerrydaSavage Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Riding "The Rock"! Posts: 3522 Republic of Newfoundland Gender:	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #3 - 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!!
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vroom1776 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2110 Gender:	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #4 - 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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Keith_B Ex Member	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #5 - 06/16/06 at 19:42:48 LOL
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DaddySauce Junior Member Offline Fried Squid is the best! Posts: 68 Arizona Gender:	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #6 - 06/19/06 at 14:41:26 100% rear brake power... I'm a gambler
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steelwolf Serious Thumper Offline "I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride." Posts: 847 Trinity, NC Gender:	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #7 - 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.
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vroom1776 Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 2110 Gender:	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #8 - 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!
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Island_Biker Ex Member	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #9 - 06/20/06 at 05:58:21 steelwolf wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06: Why save the rear? Scrap them too. You can always put your feet down. That'll work till you get to that truck. Heck, you might as well lighten her up by ditching the engine and transmission and running her full Fred Flintstone style.
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luken Full Member Offline Posts: 147 Mesa, az Gender:	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #10 - 06/20/06 at 15:15:08 Roadie wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06: 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? ???
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Re: Front brake suggestions??
Reply #11 - 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.

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klx650sm2002 Serious Thumper Offline The more I learn the less I know. Posts: 2041 Cumbria,England Gender:	Re: Front brake suggestions?? Reply #12 - 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
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