Hey everyone,

So I've heard a few people mention "big brake disc kits" for the front of the F2. The front brakes are kinda wimpy, and it would be nice to upgrade a bit. What's the story on doing this?



Also, I'm curious about potentially emplying a common concept from mountain bike disc brakes. Apparantly it's common to upgrade from 6" discs to 7" disc brakes, and the most common way to do this is simply slap on 7" disks, and get some spacers to move your calipers out so as they grip right.

Would it be possible to simply slap larger disc's onto our bikes, and simply add some spacers to position the calipers properly?

 

That's all a big brake kit is, larger rotors and caliper relocating brackets.

But you can't go buy any rotors, they have to fit on the F2 wheel. I would just buy the EBC kit and call it a day.

You will want the "EBC Pro-Lite 310mm rotors"

 

Well... That's an interesting kit, but holy ****! $192 per SIDE!?!? God damn that's crazy! Is it really that much per friggen side?!?!?

 

Yes, rotors aren't cheap

And these are full floating rotors

 

Rough up the disks with some coarse sandpaper.

If that doesnt do it then you aint squeezing hard enough.

 

what does fully floating mean?

 

My bike is getting 320mm rotors thanks to my GSXR frontend swap...

 

The F2 brakes aren't that bad... we can still stoppie/endo without problems... why blow that cash on rotors? Wouldn't it be a better use of your $$ to upgrade the uber-soft stock suspension?

 

The stock brakes are horrible, lol...

When you get to try a pair of 320's with 4 or 6 piston calipers you'll understand

 

the stock f3 has bigger brakes and more adjust-ability in the forks. i think that would be a better go than paying 400 for brakes. unless there like brembos or sumtin