The Tasteful Modification Thread
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I thought I'd start a thread were people can post their latest aftermarket mods as these sometimes get lost in the 'picture a day' thread or elsewhere. Handier to peruse, making mental shopping lists as well. Although it may fall flat on its arse.
Any modification goes, from suspension, to brakes, to gel seats or carbon anything really. But keep it tasteful, the first person to post up mini indicators, anodised tat or wavy discs will be rightfully mocked.
Anyway, these came today after I bought them at Knockhill on Saturday.
A Hel radial conversion kit for my 98 ZX6R, bloody reasonable price too. On top of the discount they flung in an entire set of braided lines as my Goodridge dual ones wouldn't fit.
Any modification goes, from suspension, to brakes, to gel seats or carbon anything really. But keep it tasteful, the first person to post up mini indicators, anodised tat or wavy discs will be rightfully mocked.
Anyway, these came today after I bought them at Knockhill on Saturday.
A Hel radial conversion kit for my 98 ZX6R, bloody reasonable price too. On top of the discount they flung in an entire set of braided lines as my Goodridge dual ones wouldn't fit.
Marquezs Stabilisers said:
Have you got a bit of a man maths situation that your lovely new calipers overwhelm the discs and suspension - so you need to upgrade those now too?
I've already been looking...... I should really just ride the fking things but summer it seems hasn't started up here yet. kingb said:
Maybe I’m being a bit thick here
The radial calipers mount to a non radial bracket - so surely the forces are applied in the same manner to the fork / bike? So the upgrade is the calliper rather than the mounting orientation right?
Yeah I get what you mean as I thought about this too. My view on it was as it's bolted top and bottom of the caliper there would be less lateral movement over the face of the disc and pad where it maters. I may be wrong. The radial calipers mount to a non radial bracket - so surely the forces are applied in the same manner to the fork / bike? So the upgrade is the calliper rather than the mounting orientation right?
fred bloggs said:
moanthebairns said:
Was gonna say pointless upgrade, then I remembered the 6 pots. You did a good thing. It'd be interesting to see what a decent pair of 4 pot axial calipers would have felt like in comparison. It'd cost a lot less, but then these are machined calipers not forged so that's something to consider I keep telling myself.....
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