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Saturday morning ride in the SMM's

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I'm planning on riding the various roads in the SMM's Saturday, any other of you folks riding up that way. edit, had a good ride, stopped by todds, blistered my tires, doing the same tomororrow

at neptunes
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at the rock store
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back at neptunes for lunch
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tires working well, qualifiers may not last long, but they sure stick well
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Good chance I'll be out there sometime during the course of the weekend, on the Norge or T3, probably Sat since I hate the RS on Sunday. So Jon, maybe you can finally give me your fix for the Norge/Griso/Breva rear brake you've been promising me since July.....although an e-mail would probably work better.....
 
Bob,
It took nearly two years for me to get you your tee shirt, you sure are impatient :D two simple steps and bob's your uncle, no pun intended
 
Sunday I have to take me "ol mum to the Airport............if you left your job we could hang out all the time. Probably couldn't afford the gas though.
 
bob.
there are two effective methods for reducing rear brake input, reduce leverage, or reduce fricition on the pads. on my griso, I was able to reduce the leverage at the pedal, on my breva, I took the brake pads and machined .25 radius cuts on the pads in the direction that woulds exit debris collected. softened the initial bite, and improved wet weather grip, no change in pad mileage. on the brevea/norge, modifiying the pads is easier that changing the leverage at the pedal, and works very well. I have pads and can whip you up a set for your trial in the next few weeks. It simply reduces the friction area, plus moves away water and other stuff picked up on the brakes, also eases life on the disks as it provides an exit for things yyou dont want grnding on your disks, and minimizeds localized heating
 
Hey Jon, sounds good, looking forward to giving it a try, though I wonder how ABS on the Norge will impact how it works out. Sure worth trying, no doubt about that. The way it is now, ABS kicks in too soon at the rear when bike is cold, as mileage goes up works a little better-but still sucks. Good thing the front brakes are so good. Still wish the CARC bikes had integrated brakes, so much better as far as I am concerned.
 
Bob,
I have a set of EBC's that I am getting ready to mod for my breva, if you want, I can do you a a set. I probably have an extra set, so your cost would be a straight trade for the modded ebc's Had good luck with this process over a number of bikes, plus better wet weather braking and cooler running.... It's a 3 minute swap, so we can do it anywhere
you should come by Ontic for lunch one day, we have some neat technology that lends itself to guzzidom,,,,
cheers, I will be hittin the smm's again tomorrow, cant get enough of those good roads
Jon
 
Jon, you sayin' just swap your modded ebc rear's for the rear pads on my bike, or ya want me to pick up or pay for a set of fresh ebc rear pad's? Not clear to me. My bike now has 20k on it, though I would be surprised if there is much wear on the rear pads-or we could check if you like....
 
Bob.
I have a number of sets of ebc pads, I will machine them next week and they will slip on in 3 minutes. They work better in the wet, more progressive, less suprisng and easier on the rotors... been doing this with overpowerful rear discs for years, no problems yet. I get ebc's pretty chaeap as I buy em by the 10 pack, so what you normally pay for a set will be approx what my enhanced pads cost. already have the machine program set up, so its about 30 seconds a pad, then about 30 seconds of hand dressing, so I got ~2 minutes in it plus set up...
 
that must be nor cal, I'm not familiar with those locations locally but that Chang Jiang is almost as good as sweet and sour pork....... least you'll be eatin chinese food. They gots panda express's overthere
 
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